About This Book
When a private island resort throws the most exclusive launch party of the decade, everyone on the guest list has something to hide — and someone doesn't make it out alive. The Club drops readers into the glittering, paranoid world of celebrity membership clubs, where the ultra-wealthy pay fortunes to escape scrutiny, only to find that money can't buy safety. The stakes are intimate and social: who do you trust when everyone around you has a persona carefully constructed for public consumption?
Ellery Lloyd — the pen name of married writing duo Paul Vlitos and Collette Lyons — structures the novel as a multi-perspective countdown, toggling between staff, guests, and the event's architects as the launch weekend accelerates toward disaster. The dual-author dynamic shows: the satire of influencer culture and hedge-fund celebrity lands with precision, and the novel moves with a propulsive, almost voyeuristic energy. Readers who enjoy peeling back the carefully managed surfaces of people with everything to lose will find this a sharp, compulsively readable ride.