The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Before I begin - apologies for not posting for so long, but hopefully I will be back with regular posts from now on :) The Inheritance Games follows Avery Kylie Grambs, a teenage orphan who is not exactly financially well-off, who has a plan to work hard and survive high school, get into a good college on a scholarship - and get out and leave her life behind. But then something unbelievable happens that changes her future plans in an instant - billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune in his will, even though she has never met or seen him and, as far as she knows, has no link to him whatsoever. Even stranger, the one requirement for Avery to receive her inheritance is that she has to move in and spend a year in the sprawling Hawthorne House, filled with secret passages and dark secrets - and has to coexist with his recently dispossessed family. The more time Avery spends there, the more she becomes convinced that the will, the letter she...