num_pages: 384
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Inheritance Games
publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers