- Children's fiction, New York Times bestseller, Young adult fiction, social themes, class differences, Young adult fiction, romance, contemporary
Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why -- or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. 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. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 392
- Publisher
- Editorial Presença, Blossom Books, Media Rodzina
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- German, English, Portuguese, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780241476178
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“When I was a kid, my mom constantly invented games.”
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