Charles Valley's legendary dowagers, the three Miss Margarets, have lost one of their own: Peggy Garrison, who married into a huge fortune but was constantly overshadowed by the legacy her husband's first wife, the great Myrtis Garrison. When Peggy's will is read, the news of who will take over the Garrison fortune shakes the town to its core. To everyone's shock, Peggy has left all of the Garrison holdings - the world-famous botanical gardens, the massive resort, and the lovely Garrison Cottage," where FDR once visited - to the town's down-and-out wild child, Laurel Selene McCready.".