28 year old genetics researcher, Samantha Jarlston, isn’t interested in rehashing her past. She only has time to run sequencing experiments, grade lab reports, and avoid handsy assistant professors. When she receives a wedding invitation in the mail between her and her childhood friend chess grandmaster Andreas Kristiansen, she tries to shrug it off. Instead it sets off a series of events that finds her signing a contract to be in a passionless relationship with Andreas, setting in motion revenge against the people who destroyed her family fifteen years ago.

First thing you should know is that despite this being the seventh book in a series, it’s actually the first book in a three-parter about Sam and Andreas. You don’t need to have read the previous six books, but it is set in a world that includes those characters. I’ve read the previous six and I think these stand alone.

As stated above Inheritance is the start of Sam and Andreas story. We learn all about their being best friends as children and Andreas’ slight obsession with Sam. She hasn’t seen him in years, but you can bet he’s been keeping tabs on her. Sam wasn’t as obsessed with Andreas, but she did care for him a lot so when he approaches her with this strange story she listens to him. She now has her own life and goals and doesn’t want to be dragged back into the craziness of their families problems, but something happens that changes her mind and causes her to agree to his crazy plans. I liked the tension the author creates between these two ex-best friends and pitting the two of them against a common enemy is a great way to get my buy in, so I didn’t have a problem eating this book up.

Note- if you, too, are going to read this book you should also know that this three story arc will have each book end in a cliffhanger that will make you angry with the author. The good news is that the second episode in the story comes out pretty quickly after the first, but what should’ve been one book being split into three kind of blows. Having read the first six, this was not unexpected, but I thought you should know.

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