The Hawthorne Legacy

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Copyright © 2021 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn), author.

Title: The Hawthorne legacy / Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

Description: First edition. | New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. |

Series: An inheritance games novel | Audience: Ages 12 & up. |

Summary: Rumors spread that Tobias Hawthorne’s lost son may still be alive, casting doubt on seventeen-year-old Avery’s inheritance and changing the rules of the game.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020048435 | ISBN 9780759557635 (hardcover) | ISBN

9780759557642 (ebook) | ISBN 9780759557659 (ebook other) Subjects: CYAC: Inheritance and succession—Fiction. | Wealth—Fiction. |

Puzzles—Fiction. | Missing persons—Fiction. | Secrets—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.B26225 Haw 2021 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048435

ISBNs: 978-0-7595-5763-5 (hardcover), 978-0-7595-5764-2 (ebook), 9780-316-39401-7 (international), 978-0-316-36613-7 (Barnes & Noble special edition), 978-0-316-38917-4 (signed edition), 9780-316-38927-3 (Barnes & Noble signed edition)