The Inheritance Games (2020)
The Inheritance Games is a 2020 children's fiction book written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
Avery Grambs keeps her head down, banks on a scholarship, and plans to leave her town behind. Then a billionaire she has never met, Tobias Hawthorne, dies and leaves her nearly his entire fortune. The will comes with conditions and no explanation. To collect, she has to move into Hawthorne House, a mansion wired with secret passages, hidden rooms, and the dead man's lifelong addiction to riddles. The four Hawthorne grandsons, cut out of the money, still live there. Grayson reads Avery as a con artist; Jameson reads her as his grandfather's final puzzle. She has to work out which of them is right.
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What is The Inheritance Games about?
Avery Grambs keeps her head down, banks on a scholarship, and plans to leave her town behind. Then a billionaire she has never met, Tobias Hawthorne, dies and leaves her nearly his entire fortune. The will comes with conditions and no explanation. To collect, she has to move into Hawthorne House, a mansion wired with secret passages, hidden rooms, and the dead man's lifelong addiction to riddles. The four Hawthorne grandsons, cut out of the money, still live there. Grayson reads Avery as a con artist; Jameson reads her as his grandfather's final puzzle. She has to work out which of them is right.
When was The Inheritance Games published?
The Inheritance Games was published in 2020.
Who made The Inheritance Games?
The Inheritance Games was written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
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The riddle-in-a-mansion setup shares DNA with the film Knives Out, where an unexpected heir throws a wealthy family into open suspicion, and with Ready or Not for the trapped-among-them tension. Puzzle-hunt readers who like reconstructing a hidden story from scattered clues should also try the game Return of the Obra Dinn.