Sandra Hodge-Hampton

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

Vivian and Rosalind love each other, but after Rosalind was diagnosed with lung cancer she became abusive to her only caregiver, Vivian, for nine life-draining years. When Vivian leaves town to see her dying father, a nurse and their close friend, Phoebe, teach Rosalind and Vivian a lesson in love they will never forget.