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The Inheritance Games
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  • Published: 15 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241476178
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.00

The Inheritance Games

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Paperback
15 Sept 2020
Hardback
30 Sept 2025
EBook
3 Sept 2020
Audiobook
3 Sept 2020
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The international bestselling, TikTok sensation, addictive, twisty thriller, full of dark family secrets and deadly stakes - now in a global cover look!

She came from nothing.
Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why.

They had everything.
Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited. It's filled with secrets and codes, and the old man's surviving relatives - a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their' money.

Now there's only one rule: winner takes all.
Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing.But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?
  • Published: 15 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241476178
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.00
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About the author

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Jennifer Lynn Barnes has written more than a dozen acclaimed young adult novels. Jen is also a Fulbright Scholar with advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is currently a professor of psychology and professional writing at the University of Oklahoma. You can find her online at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com or follow her on Twitter @jenlynnbarnes.

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Praise for The Inheritance Games

Barnes is a master of puzzles and plot twists.

E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars

Impossible to put down

Buzzfeed

A fantastic rollercoaster of a book! We Were Liars meets The Da Vinci Code.

Kat Ellis, author of Harrow Lake

A thrilling blend of family secrets, illicit romance and a high-stakes treasure hunt . . . The nonstop twists kept me guessing until the very last page!

Katharine McGee, author of American Royals

A thrilling blend of family secrets, illicit romance and a high-stakes treasure hunt . . . The nonstop twists kept me guessing until the very last page!

Katharine McGee, NYT bestselling author of American Royals

A fantastic rollercoaster of a book! We Were Liars meets The Da Vinci Code. I loved it!

Kat Ellis, author of Harrow Lake

One of YA's more reliably twisty and brilliant thriller authors is back with a brand new series that's every bit as impossible to put down as her others

Buzzfeed

Barnes is a master of puzzles and plot twists.

E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars

Impossible to put down

Buzzfeed

A fantastic rollercoaster of a book! We Were Liars meets The Da Vinci Code.

Kat Ellis, author of Harrow Lake

A thrilling blend of family secrets, illicit romance and a high-stakes treasure hunt . . . The nonstop twists kept me guessing until the very last page!

Katharine McGee, author of American Royals

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