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The Final Gambit

The Final Gambit

Contemporary LiteratureMystery
Pages
400
Published
2022
Language
English

Synopsis

The third book in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Inheritance Games trilogy brings Avery Grambs's high-stakes puzzle to its conclusion. Avery has almost made it: she is weeks away from officially inheriting Tobias Hawthorne's billions, if she can simply survive to the finish line. But holding a fortune this large paints a target on her back, and the closer she gets, the more dangerous the game becomes.

Living in Hawthorne House with the four brothers who once treated her as a puzzle to be solved, Avery is now something else entirely — an ally, a friend, and, to one of them, far more. When a ruthless new player arrives making impossible demands, Avery and the Hawthornes must outthink an adversary who knows their weaknesses and is willing to threaten everything, and everyone, they love.

Twisty and satisfying, The Final Gambit delivers the last clues, the biggest reveals, and the payoff to the trilogy's central mystery and romance.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

MysteriousTenseRomanticAtmospheric
Mystery Box

Genres

Contemporary Literature Mystery Young Adult Thriller YA Amateur Sleuth

About the author

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Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Jennifer Lynn Barnes is an American writer of young adult fiction, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1984. She wrote her first novel at nineteen and has since published more than twenty-five books, among them the Inheritance Games series, the Naturals, the Debutantes and the Fixer. Barnes studied cognitive science at Yale University, graduating in 2006, and received her PhD from Yale in 2012. A Fulbright Scholar, she holds graduate degrees in psychology, psychiatry and cognitive science. She was for...

Characters

Avery GrambsProtagonist

On the cusp of inheriting billions, she faces a final, deadly game to keep it.

Jameson HawthorneSupporting

The reckless grandson, now firmly at Avery's side.

Grayson HawthorneSupporting

The eldest grandson, an unwavering protector as the stakes peak.

Nash HawthorneSupporting

The eldest Hawthorne grandson, running the family's Vegas security business and drawn back into Avery's orbit.

Xander HawthorneSupporting

The youngest Hawthorne grandson, the family's inventor and tech-minded jokester.

All characters in The Final Gambit

Frequently asked questions

  • Does this book conclude the series?

    While this novel serves as the intended finale for the original trilogy and resolves the central mystery surrounding the inheritance, the author has continued to expand the world with subsequent books featuring the same characters and setting.

  • Was the series planned as a trilogy from the beginning?

    The author has noted in the acknowledgments that the first two books were written without a guaranteed contract for a third, which influenced the structural development of the narrative arc.

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