Club Rules Author:Andrew Trees In Eden’s Glen, an iconic world of privilege and ease, the comfortable rituals of wealth and leisure have created an enclave almost untouched by time. But position is not easy to attain, or to keep. And quiet desperation has suddenly found its way into lives whose paths were always smooth before. — One family has indisputably stood atop Ede... more »n’s Glen for generations: the Winthrops. Invitations to their parties are the most coveted in town; the fortunes of many rise and fall on the whims of Winthrop Trust, the family’s bank; their favor dictates who gets into the country club -- and who does not. But even the Winthrops are not immune to the pressures that underlie the clean, calm surface of life in Eden’s Glen. Chafing from the small disappointments of twenty years of marriage leaves Preston and Anne Winthrop -- the town’s golden couple -- unprepared to deal with a long-buried secret that bubbles up to shatter an otherwise uneventful summer of tee times and ladies’ lunches. As husband and wife struggle to come to terms with their changed lives, their teenage son’s misery goes unsoothed. And the events that follow reveal that even money and position cannot save their charmed world.« less