Summary

In Chapter 1, Alisa Ortega, a lawyer, told Avery Kylie Grambs, that they needed to talk about Avery’s 18th birthday party and setting up a trust fund. Avery insisted that she did not want a party. She did not respond to the trust fund issue. Avery was set to inherit Tobias Hawthorne’s fortune, worth billions of dollars, in just a few weeks.

In Chapter 2, Avery remembered Jameson Hawthorne, one of Tobias’s grandsons giving her a Hawthorne pin, proof he and his brothers — Nash, Grayson, and Xander — had accepted her as a member of their family.

In Chapter 3, as Avery practiced her shooting, she wondered when Grayson Hawthorne, Tobias’s second oldest grandson, who was attending Harvard, would ever call.

In Chapter 4, on Avery’s 18th birthday, she opened her eyes to see a ball gown hanging on her door. She found...