The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Why kill two birds with one stone, he always said, when you could kill twelve?”

“What if your grandfather didn’t know that Toby was alive? What if Toby was the one who realized that the old man was watching me? Considering leaving the entire fortune to me?”

The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.

“When you give it to her, you tell Zara that she’ll get no judgment from me. She’s toughened up just fine, and we all do what we have to do to survive.”