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Avery is saved by Toby/Harry and by one of the Hawthorne employees, Melissa Vincent or “Mellie.” In a final conversation with Toby/Harry, Avery learns the truth about his relationship with her mother: He was there when she was born and signed her birth certificate, but he isn’t her father.
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Nov 15, 2021 · Avery believes Toby is “Harry,” the homeless man with whom she used to play checkers in a Connecticut park. Avery and Jameson make a friendly wager to motivate them into working harder to find the answers to the Toby mystery once and for all.
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Early Life
Avery's mother passed away when she was fifteen. Since then, her half-sister, Libby Grambs, has taken custody of her and the two live together in New Castle, Connecticut. She works at a hole-in-the-wall diner to help pay rent as she and Libby are just scraping by. Avery has a plan to ensure a better future. She is currently a junior and will graduate next year with at least two semesters' worth of college credits. Her test scores should put her in scholarship contention at the University of C...
Avery Kylie Grambs gets notice that she inherited billionaire Tobias Hawthorne's money. But to claim it she has to live in the Hawthorne house for a year. When moving in she meets the 4 hot Hawthorne brothers and has to deal with them. The mystery rises when Avery has to go through mazes, riddles, and a bunch of clues to figure out why Tobias would ever to choose her. A girl he has never met.
Avery has been living in Hawthorne House for less than a month. Avery learns the extent to which she has gained notoriety and thus the level of the inevitable hate that comes with it. Someone leaves examples of the online death threats against her in her locker at school. She learns there just might be more than one game, for reasons as to why she was picked, which is confirmed by her dad's circled signature on her birth certificate, and the four brothers and Avery set out to solve the mystery.
Avery has thick ashy-brown hair that's not quite wavy, not quite straight with natural lighter highlights. Her eyes are hazel with golden-brown flecks, framed by thick eyebrows. She is described as having an expressionless face that is very hard to read although Grayson Hawthorne has no trouble reading her expression. Avery believes there is nothin...
Avery is brilliant, curious, practical, and a logical thinker. She has always been good at math, and as a great guesser, she is able to solve various mysteries, riddles, and puzzles. She is a straight-A student and wants to attend college and major in actuarial science. Avery is a bit of a loner. Her lack of friends is more a result of practicality...
Avery meets Jameson when she is brought to Hawthorne House for the reading of Tobias Hawthorne's will. Jameson is immediately fascinated with her, and Avery is immediately attracted to him even though she knows he is a bad idea. They start a strange kind of friendship. They work together to find clues to solve Tobias's puzzle he left his grandsons. He has the tendency to constantly give Avery nicknames. He first calls her Mystery Girl, then M.G., and finally Heiress. On one occasion he calls...
Avery and Grayson meet when Grayson arrives at her high school to inform her that she is in his grandfather's will and must come with him to Hawthorne House. After Tobias's will is read, Grayson becomes hostile towards Avery because he believes she is a con-woman who manipulated his grandfather. He warns her several times to stay away from his family, and specifically from Jameson. Avery is immediately attracted to Grayson despite his rudeness and knowing that he is bad for her. When Avery's...
Avery and Xander have pretty much always had a smooth and friendly relationship. Xander did not hold any hate towards her inheriting Tobias Hawthorne's money. Xander would help Avery with the puzzles sometimes, and Avery and Xander have mutual respect for each other. Avery and Xander become real friends as they spend more time together. He becomes Avery's "self-appointed BHFF, Best Hawthorne Friend Forever, and considers it his sacred duty to keep her spirits high."
Avery has been running a weekly poker game in her high school's parking lot to finance Harry's breakfasts, and sometimes her own.She owns an ancient Pontiac.Avery hates butterscotch. Chocolate cupcakes are her favorite.She played her first game of chess at six years old.Avery’s conversation with Oren occurs in Hawthorne House’s security center, which provides CCTV footage of the mansion. As Avery views the screens, she sees Jameson and Xander headed toward the walled-off wing of the house where Toby used to live.
It’s Thea. Avery follows Thea into the passage. Then, someone grabs Avery from behind and puts a cloth over her nose and mouth. As Avery loses consciousness, she hears Thea say, “I had to, Avery. They have Rebecca” (318).
Why does Avery worry the others at the reading of the will may try to kill her? She is left the majority of Hawthorne's billion dollar estate. What is the one condition Avery must meet to inherit her billions?
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Tobias Hawthorne accomplished what he wanted to achieve by bringing Avery to Hawthorne house, and the threat of the Blakes was neutralized. There’s no reason she couldn’t have given them some of their intended inheritance.
