The Three Hundred Dollar Heir

Of the three Harrington children, Silas was the one kept in the dark. Victoria was groomed for the boardroom, Tristan charmed the galas, and Silas, the biological heir found after twenty years in the Appalachian backwoods, was sent to a decaying upstate estate to care for a grandfather left mute and helpless by a stroke. The estate manager, Mercer, handed Silas a care allowance of three hundred dollars a month, and Silas, who once dug roots all winter for less, took it at face value.

So Silas broke the courtyard sod, turned Grandfather every two hours, wove baskets and gathered wild ginseng to buy a clinical-grade oxygen unit. When the freight truck arrived, so did the family: Victoria with her Boston specialists, Tristan with a twelve-million-dollar ginseng root. Then Victoria demanded to know where twenty-seven million dollars of care money had gone.

Silas had never smelled that kind of money. So who had been getting fat off it?