Charleston blue-blood Clayton Wilcott has determined to change the very course of the lives of his four children. So he's left a provisional will. Had each of them kidnapped for the reading, even. (No one ever said he was lucid there at the end!)

Now they're going to have to honor Daddy's commandments from beyond the grave for the next year--or be cut off from their substantial inheritances. The battle for their birthright will bring them face to face with themselves and each other. And what is revealed will challenge the very soul of each of them.

When the year is over, who will be richer? Who will be wiser? Who will end up with nothing?

And who will finally understand that wills are made to be bent?