For those who deal in the fate of the world, salvation and destruction aren’t games of chance.

Ernestine “Ernie” Terwilliger never intended to live among the Immortal Dealers, much less to be party to a continuing battle where the fate of humanity is in the draw of the card. As well as the stakes possess gotten only higher now that a shady new Forger has been crowned.

Virginia may be responsible for creating the chaos which makes the universe tick, but her tasks have been noble—each 1 in aid from strangers. However when Ernie discovers Virginia’s accurate purpose, she realizes it’s going to take a completely new sort of play to stop her.

The game changer lies within a mysterious artifact dredged in the ocean. To unlock its power, Ernie and her partner, Gabe, must traverse dangerous brand-new realms and uncover the annals of Forgers past. Joined inside a tenuous alliance using a former enemy and stalked by previous friends flipped lethal foes, Ernie experienced better play her cards right—because this time, the whole world could be damaged in the shuffle.