Game Changer

'We'll play poker,' Hanna said. 'And whoever wins... gets to spend the night with me.'

Thad and his wife, Hanna, are spending a week in the Slovakian Alps with their old college buddies Jake and Hayden--only, as soon as the airport shuttle dumps them in the tiny resort town where everything is closed and nobody speaks English, they discover there's no snow this year. Just a whole load of rain.

With a week to get through until the shuttle bus returns, and entirely without alcohol, the four fr...