The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The girl in the photos was pretty and full of righteous fury. She looked as arrogant and dangerous

“It wasn’t so much a press conference as a very bad idea,” I admitted wryly. “Have I ever told you,” Jameson murmured, staring at me in a way that had to be intentional, “that I’m a sucker for bad ideas?”

She’s a gothic beam of sunshine.

told you the day we met that the Hawthorne family was a twisted, broken mess.” She stared at the mirror a moment longer. “I never said that I wasn’t one, too.”

was just a little girl with a funny little name, born on the right day.

will always protect you,” he told me, his jaw tight, his eyes shadowed. “You deserve to feel safe in your own home. And I’ll help you with the foundation. I’ll teach you what you need to know to take to this life like you were born to it. But this… us…” He swallowed. “It can’t happen, Avery. I’ve seen the way Jameson looks at you.”

Nash Hawthorne would probably tip his cowboy hat to Death herself.