Leaders are Readers
Join the 20/30 Club Book Club and participate in monthly discussions with other young leaders. Stay inspired, re-read a classic, or learn new strategies for being an effective leader.
Registration is required to receive the meeting link in advance of the event. Book club will be a monthly series. Each attendee will have a chance to share their thoughts and discuss concepts from the book.
This event is FREE and open to both Professional and Social members, however, we encourage our members to patronize our venue host. Know a book we should read next? Send us your favorites to be considered for future reads.
About This Month's Book (Amazon Review):
- An Amazon, Buzzfeed, and Rainbow Reading Best Book of the Year!
- A "Best Mystery & Suspense of 2022" pick from BookPage!
A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist.
Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene’s recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret—but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who they are. But to keep their secret, they've needed to keep others out. And now they're worried they're keeping a murderer in.
Irene’s widow hires Evander Mills to uncover the truth behind her mysterious death. Andy, recently fired from the San Francisco police after being caught in a raid on a gay bar, is happy to accept—his calendar is wide open. And his secret is the kind of secret the Lamontaines understand.
Andy had never imagined a world like Lavender House. He's seduced by the safety and freedom found behind its gates, where a queer family lives honestly and openly. But that honesty doesn't extend to everything, and he quickly finds himself a pawn in a family game of old money, subterfuge, and jealousy—and Irene’s death is only the beginning.
When your existence is a crime, everything you do is criminal, and the gates of Lavender House can’t lock out the real world forever. Running a soap empire can be a dirty business.
