Spencer Collins thinks his life at Harvard will be all about basketball and pre-med, hard workouts and grinding work in class. But Spencer is about to be introduced to the most mysterious inner sanctum of the inner sanctum: To his surprise, he's in the running to be "punched" for one of Harvard's elite final clubs. The Ancient Nine is both a coming-of-age book and a swiftly plotted story that lets listeners into the ultimate of closed worlds with all of its dark historical secrets and unyielding power.