
eBook by John Stovall
It's Drop Night — the one night every decade when the gods hand out cards to a lucky few. If you get a deck, you're a deckbearer capable of wondrous feats within the Great Game system: controlling powerful monsters and summoning mantles to fight alongside your beasts. Ethan Wolfe, top enforcer for the Grimm family mob, has already been overlooked twice. When he finally gets a deck, there's no time to celebrate — the rival gang has six deckbearers and they're cutting in on the family's trade. And things might get worse when everyone figures out he received an ultra-rare card.

It's Drop Night — the one night every decade when the gods hand out cards to a lucky few. Ethan Wolfe, top enforcer for the Grimm family mob, has already been overlooked twice. When he finally gets a deck, there's no time to celebrate — the rival gang has six deckbearers and they're cutting in on the family's trade. Someone has to do the dirty work, and it won't be the spoiled children of Big Man Grimm. Things might get worse when everyone figures out Wolfe received an ultra-rare card in his deck.

One family down, four to go. After eliminating the Cobras and taking the second card of the Gate to the Underworld set, Wolfe's old boss is dead — but his son Damian wants Wolfe's cards and will do anything to get them. Wolfe faked his own death and moved to a nearby town, hoping to leave the Noimoire underworld behind. Nine months later, events pull him back into the fray when he saves twenty victims of human trafficking — putting him on the radar of a righteous police lieutenant, his old associates, and new enemies alike.

Damian Grimm is dead and his family is in the hands of an ally, but Wolfe's original charge from Cerberus was to clean house on all the crime families. The Weeds, the Singh family, and the Renfeldt still nest in the city — and a shadowy figure, a deckbearer born before the Civil War, seems to be coordinating their efforts. With Shel, Miriam, Rhett, and a new hacker ally, Wolfe must strengthen his deck, train himself, and collect the remaining Gate to the Infernal cards before facing the most powerful deckbearer in Noimoire.