However, this isn’t Vincent’s prime motivation-the real reason he’s kidnapped Toby relates to his son, William Blake.Īpproximately 40 years ago, William Blake, who went by “Liam,” tried to infiltrate Hawthorne House. Tobias cheated Vincent out of a patent that made Tobias millions of dollars. Shortly after, Avery starts receiving threatening notes and messages from Toby’s unknown captor, who refers to himself as “Luke.” In fact, Luke is Vincent Blake, a formal rival of Tobias’s. Eve tells Avery that Toby has been kidnapped. The Final Gambit’s action takes off when Eve arrives at Hawthorne House looking for Avery. In the opening scenes of The Final Gambit, Avery is still curious about what this disk was. In this exchange, Toby also took something from Avery-a small coin-like metal disk with concentric rings engraved on it, which Avery found while searching for Toby. In Avery’s exchange with Toby at the end of The Hawthorne Legacy, she learned about Eve. In The Hawthorne Legacy, Avery learned that Toby was alive and in hiding-and that he had a secret daughter, Evelyn Shane, or “Eve.” Toby didn’t want Eve to be corrupted by the Hawthorne’s wealth and power, and thus kept her hidden from his family. At this point, Avery is also in a committed romantic relationship with one of Tobias’s grandsons, Jameson.Īt the end of The Hawthorne Legacy, the preceding book, Avery met Tobias’s adopted son, Tobias Hawthorne II, or “Toby.” Toby was long presumed dead by his family. To fully claim the Hawthorne fortune, Avery must inhabit Hawthorne House for one full year when The Final Gambit opens, she’s nearly fulfilled this stipulation.

The Final Gambit opens as Avery-still living in Hawthorne House, as in the previous books-is preparing to turn 18.

Like all the books in the Inheritance Games series, The Final Gambit is told from the first-person point of view of Avery Kylie Grambs, the teenage girl who has mysteriously inherited a billion-dollar fortune from deceased Texas billionaire Tobias Tattersall Hawthorne. This guide references the 2022 Little, Brown edition.Ĭontent Warning: The source text includes depictions of sexual assault, statutory rape, and violence. The Final Gambit is the third book in the Inheritance Games series (the first being The Inheritance Games and the second being The Hawthorne Legacy). Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the author of several young adult novels.

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