

I quite enjoyed this book! It feels like it’s inspired a bit by Clue, with hints of the Selection series. And in order to actually claim this inheritance, Avery has to live in the Hawthorne House for a year-with the remaining Hawthorne family, who wonder why they have been so unexpectedly outmaneuvered by their patriarch, and who view Avery as an interloper and, maybe, a threat to be eliminated. He was one of the wealthiest people in the country-a literal billionaire-and she is to inherit the bulk of the money and properties. Everything changes, though, when she receives word that she’s been named in the will of Tobias T.

She’s determined to get to college, get a good job, and finally be comfortable.

In The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Avery is barely scraping by as she tries to make it through high school and her part time job.
