The Bridge Club

The Bridge Club meets every Saturday, rotating from house to house. The hard workers relax and talk about their lives, loves, and current affairs while playing cards. The real game, though, is in the repartee they use as a side diversion, a battle of intelligence, words, and "one-upmanship." They have many things in common; the biggest is a secret that they have passed down from generation to generation as far back as America is old.

As the friends battle to keep their damning secret, the...