Inheritance

The day Melissa returns for her Great Aunt Hetty's funeral and turns the key in the lock of The Old Manor House on the de Braose estate where she grew up, she knows her life is about to change. Lord Edward de Braose, his grandson William and faithful Mr & Mrs Podger help her come to terms with Hetty's death and the revelations in the will. When Lord Edward dies suddenly and the ancient de Braose estate is inherited by his son Tobias, the mansion and park is sold. The new owners plan to develop the park into a golfcourse and vast 16th century mansion into the clubhouse with a health spa, but is this development all what it seems? William and Melissa campaign to save the endangered species and rare chalk grassland from the bulldozers only to discover they are up against wealthy, powerful invisible investors, sheltering behind offshore trusts and shell companies registered in various tax havens around the world. Can they beat the power of big money and challenge the local council's permission for the development via the Engish court system in the High Court? And what of their own relationship?