For eight years Meagan Flannigan and her son have been living in a deteriorating summer mansion on the MacLeod Family's 125-acre estate in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As the mother of their son's illegitimate child, she has free rent and a small salary as the estate manager. The MacLeods haven't visited the place in six years, largely, Meagan thought, because they don't want to come face to face with "the slutty little Yooper," as Mrs. MacLeod called her, and her child. Now, with hints of interest in their grandson, the MacLeods are coming to visit. Why? Meagan wonders. Are they going to tell her the family fortune is gone and so is her salary? Are they going to sell the estate and she will have to move? Has their only son, Rob, finally produced a legitimate heir? Or has alcoholism finally killed him? She can only speculate on how their news is going to impact her and her child.