No one forgets their first love...That first kiss, the passion for music or the view from the top of a mountain. First loves come in many forms, and for ELL DONELAN it was her home; The Willows. Gambling, the one way a girl in 1925 could raise cash quickly. She is just a pretty girl having a lucky night, what was the harm?The obsession that changes a man-REGGIE MARTIN is many things; muscle for the mob, ran gin for speakeasies and was the ultimate bachelor. His passions were few; he loved a good game of cards and a hot women. Not necessarily in any order, he took his luck on both. One chance meeting changed it all leaving him only one option - to go all in.Now Ell and Reggie are in bed with the syndicate with the cops and a rival watching their every move! Will they survive and can they in the end, save THE WILLOWS?