You are cordially invited to the Secret Book Society…   London, 1885: three women, all strangers to one another, receive a mysterious invitation to join Lady Duxbury in her library under the guise of afternoon tea.   Each woman is battling their own adversities and repressive expectations placed upon them by their husbands and families. There’s Eleanor Clarke, a devoted mother whose wealthy, wrathful husband has prohibited access to her son; Rose Wharton, a transplanted American struggling to adapt to her role as a future earl’s wife. And there’s Lavinia Cavendish, an artistic, passionate young woman harboring a family secret.   Leading book society is Lady Duxbury herself: a reclusive, thrice-widowed countess with rumors swirling around her about the untimely death of her husbands. Yet within the walls of her secluded home is a rich, extensive library, filled with books she longs to share amidst the reading restric