"Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Oilve Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend. Yet as word of the unexpected windfall spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among the church members as to how the money would best be used. And before the estate is released to the meeting, Olive's estranged niece, Regina, turns up tipsy and furious in Hope and threatens a lawsuit over what she believes is rightfully hers"--p. [4] cover.