When Josie King left Las Vegas in the '90s, she never looked back. The daughter of gambling mogul Roy King, spirited math whiz Josie grew up on the casino floor but deliberately turned away from the family business. She’s been living a quiet life in LA as an accountant and a single mom when she finds herself summoned back to Sin City. Now, 15 years later, Josie's father has died unexpectedly, and her siblings are already gathered for the reading of his will...only to discover that in order to inherit, they must spend three years working together at the notorious family casino, The Jackpot. Josie’s pride won’t let her walk away from the family empire again, so she agrees to take charge of the casino’s finances. Las Vegas is more dangerous than ever, but Josie knows that to save the family business, she’ll have to wade in deeper.

Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady’s companion with a sharp, wry wit, turns to her sister Martha, a mother struggling with six children and an absent, disinterested husband named Sigmund Freud. While Martha and the scientific community are shocked and repulsed by Freud's "pornographic" work, Minna is fascinated. She and Freud embark on what is at first simply an intellectual courtship, but hides something deeper beneath the surface, a desire that Minna cannot escape.