Book Two · Jekyll Island, 1910–1929
The sons inherit the work.
The island keeps its rules.
Hollis Pruett wants the boats. Isaiah Bell discovers a gift for a game he is paid to carry. As war and a changing century reach Jekyll, two young men find their own places in a world their families know too well.
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The next generation
From the aftermath of the 1910 meeting to the uncertainty of 1929, The Long Party follows the families whose work keeps the Club running. Friendship, inherited loyalties, and the question of staying or leaving unfold beside the water and across the greens.
A working island
Select a place to discover its role in the story. Book Two’s markers use the trilogy’s illustrated base map. Positions are approximate literary locations, including fictional settings—not directions for a visit.
Base illustration from The Winter Island (1888–1910); numbered markers explore the later novel.
Illustration inspired by the novels
Where every season begins
Hollis Pruett steps into the family’s life on the boats. Members arrive with trunks and expectations; the men on the wharf know the tide, the lines, and exactly when to offer an arm.
The people behind the grandeur
Four lives shaped by work, family, and the island’s boundaries. Select a character to discover their place in the story.
The boats
Clara’s son knows what he wants: a place on the island’s boats. His mother sees possibilities beyond the wharf. Hollis sees a life in the creeks, the launches, and work he has watched since childhood.
The world of the novel
Illustrated glimpses of the island’s atmosphere, from the arrivals at dusk to the lives beyond the Club’s bright windows.
Every arrival depends on someone who knows the water.
Guests arrive beneath the oaks. Beyond the light, the island’s work goes on.
Illustrations inspired by the novels.
Three generations · 1888–1947
The Jekyll Island Trilogy follows the families who arrive for the season—and the families who remain after the last launch leaves the wharf.
1888–1910 · Available now
Opening in 1888 and spanning more than twenty years, The Winter Island follows seventeen-year-old hunt guide Danny Corley and sixteen-year-old Clara, who works inside the Club House, as America’s wealthiest families remake Jekyll as their private winter kingdom.
When a member’s son lends Clara a book, one quiet gesture crosses a boundary the island was built to preserve. Their coming-of-age story unfolds among hunts, launches, grand verandas, and the year-round community behind the grandeur.
1910–1929
The new century reaches Jekyll in earnest. Yachts crowd the wharf, jazz drifts into the night, and the old rituals of the Club collide with a generation that has little patience for inherited rules.
Against the excess and momentum of the 1920s, the island’s families and workers confront changing ambitions, tested loyalties, and lines of race and privilege that wealth cannot erase.
1929–1947 · In development
The trilogy’s final volume follows Jekyll’s families through the Depression, war, and the fading of the private Club era, ending in 1947 as the island enters a new chapter under state ownership.
As the winter kingdom empties, those who have carried it must decide what to leave behind—and what still belongs to them.
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