In March 1926, Sam and Sally received a letter from a lawyer inviting them to attend an urgent meeting. They were shocked to find they had been left a thousand-acre estate. The mystery was that they had never met the man who bequeathed them the estate known as Lakewood, and that his son had been disinherited.
The estate was deserted when they first visited it, since all the staff had been dismissed, but Sam and Sally resolved to try to rebuild...