The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

 The first book in a yet-to-be-finished trilogy, The Inheritance Games takes an interesting view on the Cinderella story.


Avery Grambs is a whip-smart teenager who wants to do just good enough in school so she can earn a college scholarship and start her life. She's almost there, too, when suddenly she's whisked away to a mansion called Hawthorne House for the reading of the will of a person she's never heard of. She learns she has inherited almost all of his billionaire-level fortune, but there's a catch. She must live for a year in his sprawling, secret-passage-filled house...and survive his furious family.


4/5 stars

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