Avery isn’t sure if he is there to help or hinder her (or maybe kill her?). Grayson is the buttoned-up second eldest. But he promises to work with Avery if they can solve the clues. The second youngest boy – Avery’s age – is damaged and seems a little wild. Who can she trust? The youngest Hawthorne grandson likes to invent, create and blow things up. Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ writing sparkles as Avery starts to navigate the new world she finds herself in. But everyone is keeping secrets.Īvery is thrust into a world that is glittery and deadly. Avery wants to know why she has been left the money, the boys want to know who she is and why they were disinherited. Avery’s benefactor loved puzzle and challenges and he leaves one final game for Avery and his four grandsons to play. To claim her inheritance, Avery must live for a year in his massive mansion, complete with more secret tunnels, passageways and compartments than a girl knows what to do with, and a family who would rather see her dead than living in the house they thought was theirs.Ĭlues, puzzles, riddles, secret codes. He has left his billions of dollars to her and not his two daughters or four grandsons. She has been left an inheritance by one of the richest men in America. Then a mysterious boy appears and demands her presence at a will reading. She has a plan for college and a secure job for the future. Do well in school but not so well that people notice her or notice that she is currently sleeping in her car to stay away from her sister’s boyfriend. Mystery, secrets, hidden passage ways, billions and billions of dollars, murder, revenge, cute boys (who are, thankfully, not Avery’s half-brothers) and a treasure hunt that promises answers…maybe.Īvery Grambs knows how to stay invisible. The Inheritance Games just grabbed me right from the first page and didn’t let go until, before I knew it, the book was over, my mind was blown and I wanted to start all over again. My thoughtsĪnd once again Jennifer Lynn Barnes proves why she is one of my top favourite authors. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather’s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he’s determined to take her down. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s touch–and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. The catch? Avery has no idea why–or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out.
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