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Nov 15, 2021 · At a knock, Avery opens the secret passageway in her room, expecting Jameson to be on the other side. It’s Thea, who leads her into a trap. Thea explains Bex is being held prisoner, so Thea had no choice. Mellie, a new maid at Hawthorne House, knocks Avery out with chloroform.
Dec 27, 2021 · The Rooney family are drug dealers near Hawthorne Island. Avery tries to reach out but they are having none of it. The police report from the night of the fire reveals that Toby soaked the house in petrol, but he didn’t set the fire. Instead, lightning struck, and the house went up in flames.
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is the second book in the bestselling The Inheritance Games series by author Jennifer Lynn Barnes. The book before it is The Inheritance Games, and it is followed by The Final Gambit.
Intrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Inheritance Games perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson.
ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions - including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons.
Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she's not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. And there are threats lurking around every corner, as adversaries emerge who will stop at nothing to see Avery out of the picture - by any means necessary.
With nonstop action, aspirational jet-setting, family intrigue, swoonworthy romance, and billions of dollars hanging in the balance, The Hawthorne Legacy will thrill Jennifer Lynn Barnes fans and new readers alike.
begins one week after The Inheritance Games finishes. Avery Grambs and Jameson Hawthorne are talking in the tunnels underneath Hawthorne House. Frustrated they have not been able to solve the mystery of Toby Hawthorne, the youngest son of Tobias Hawthorne, Sr. He is believed to have died twenty years ago after a tragic vacation to his private island with friends. The bodies of Toby’s friends were found; his was not.
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. If Jameson solves the mystery, Avery will forgive him for his “lapse of judgement” after they decoded the Black Wood. (He suddenly dropped all interest in her after finding out she wasn’t chosen to be Tobias’ heir because she was truly special.) If Avery wins, Jameson has to forget they ever kissed and never try to charm her into kissing him again.
Avery now owns a pro football team and is forced to attend a game in her private suite and hobnob with VIP’s. As she drives up to the stadium, she spots her deadbeat father, Ricky Grambs, in the crowd. She doesn’t talk to him. Later Libby, Avery’s older sister, tries to convince Avery that Ricky isn’t interested in her newfound wealth; he just wants to reconnect with her. Avery doesn’t buy it.
At school, Avery finds some surprises in her locker: a photo from an article about Ricky Grambs’ appearance at the stadium and a pile of small papers with comments from the article’s readers about Avery. Many of them are threatening, even violent. When Avery tells her bodyguard about the incident, he tells her about The List, a group of names of people who are deemed possible security threats to Avery. Ricky is on the list as is Skye Hawthorne—the mother of Jameson, Grayson, Xander, and Nash—who tried to murder Avery in
Back at Hawthorne House, Avery, Jameson, and Xander all have the same idea to break into the wing where Toby lived, which has been bricked up for twenty years. Avery finds a homemade cipher disk—a wheel used to generate secret codes—inside a clock. Xander discovers a secret compartment under Toby’s bed that has been inscribed with lines from a poem called “A Poison Tree” by William Blake.
Later, Avery realizes the poem is a clue, which leads her and Jameson to search the legal books in Toby’s library, where they find a code. They use the cipher disk to reveal an unfinished poem written by Toby. To finish it, they use a black light to uncover a secret diary Toby kept on the walls of his room. It reveals Toby discovered he was secretly adopted. Avery also recognizes Toby’s handwriting; it matches the signature her father scrawled on her birth certificate. If Toby is her birth father, the fact that Tobias Hawthorne left his fortune to Avery suddenly makes sense.
May 7, 2024 · Using clues in the poem Toby wrote on his bedroom walls, Avery and Jameson go to the hedge maze on the grounds of Hawthorne House. They discover a secret room with Toby’s writing, but no body. Nash asks Mr. Laughlin—Hawthorne House’s long-time gardener—for help.
- Jameson Hawthorne. 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.
- Grayson Hawthorne. 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.
- Xander Hawthorne. 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.
- Libby Grambs. Avery loves her half-sister Libby, and the feeling is reciprocal. Libby is Averys legal guardian. Avery lived with Libby part-time before inheriting Hawthorne House, and Avery and Libby both care for each other and are concerned for one another when needed.
Sheffield has kidnapped Avery, hoping this will lure Toby/Harry out of hiding: “You are his daughter. He will come for you” (321). Sheffield used Mellie to get a piece of Avery’s DNA; Sheffield already had a piece of Toby/Harry’s DNA from the Hawthorne Island fire investigation.
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Avery didn’t really choose Jameson, Grayson stepped away. He said, “as your friend,” and then later added, “I’m not fighting with Jameson again.” So when people say, “oh, it’s done, she chose Jameson,” she picked her only choice. Also, whoever made the point about Grayson freezing being weird. EXACTLY!!
