She knows their secrets, and they know her.īut as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help-and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers.

The paparazzi are dogging her every step. To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.Īvery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather’s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he’s determined to take her down. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. 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. The catch? Avery has no idea why–or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. Luckily, Jameson Hawthorne lives for impossible.ĭrawn into twisted games on opposite sides of the globe, Grayson and Jameson-with the help of their brothers and the girl who inherited their grandfather’s fortune-must dig deep to decide who they want to be and what each of them will sacrifice to win.Īvery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. Now he must infiltrate London’s most exclusive underground gambling club, which caters to the rich, the powerful, and the aristocratic, and win an impossible game of greatest stakes. When his mysterious father appears and asks for a favor, Jameson can’t resist the challenge. Jameson Hawthorne is a risk-taker, a sensation-seeker, a player of games. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements.

When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem-efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first.

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