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 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: the four Hawthorne grandsons who grew up with every expectation that they would inherit billions. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
Trigger & Content Warnings:
- Parental abandonment
- Physical child abuse recounted
- Abusive relationship, and 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)
- Minor 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, central theme)
- Death of a mother recounted
- Attempted murder (on-page in chp 52 & 68)
- Gun violence (on-page in chp 52)
- Car accident (chp 68)
- Homelessness mentioned
