In Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s young-adult novel The Inheritance Games, the Hawthorne family mansion is called Hawthorne House.
Avery Grambs unexpectedly inherits Tobias Hawthorne’s fortune, but she must live for a year in Hawthorne House to receive it. The enormous Texas mansion is shared with the four Hawthorne grandsons, who expected their family’s wealth to pass to them.
The house is more than a setting: its rooms, passages, puzzles, and hidden clues form part of Tobias Hawthorne’s final elaborate game. Avery and the brothers investigate the meaning of the inheritance while navigating conflicting loyalties and family secrets.
Barnes published The Inheritance Games in 2020. It begins a trilogy continued by The Hawthorne Legacy and The Final Gambit. The title is sometimes confused with the series title, but Hawthorne House is the specific name of the mansion in the story.