The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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 secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.
Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed: four Hawthorne grandsons who grew up with every expectation that they would inherit billions… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Parental abandonment
- Physical child abuse recounted
- Abusive relationship
- Emotional & physical intimate partner violence (off-page)
- Cheating mentioned (chp 55)
- Revenge pornography involving a minor mentioned (chp 59)
- Alcohol consumption
- Minor blood depiction & physical injury (chp 52-54)
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death due to heart attack mentioned (chp 55 & 78)
- Death of a sister recounted
- Death of a girlfriend recounted
- Death of a grandfather, off-page (theme)
- Death of a mother recounted
- Attempted murder, on-page (chp 52 & 68)
- Gun violence (on-page in chp 52)
- Car accident (chp 68)
- Homelessness mentioned
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