*Narrator*

With his usual confidence, the Alpha of Brinsley strides into his favorite Alpha’s club and heads straight for the library where he knows the others are waiting.

He is not a man accustomed to losing, and it doesn’t sit particularly well with him. Ruthless strategy is the watchword. It is the watchword of all of his comrades, the perfect hand …he and his friends were so dubbed when they attended Alpha College. They know how to play games, both those of strategy and cards. With a cunning and merciless plan that ensures they win, and that is the reason they had been both feared and revered. They know the...