The Inheritance by Cassie Cole

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Knives Out meets Fifty Shades of Grey in this sizzling romance mystery.

One dead millionaire. Three potential inheritors.
And a crazy inheritance game to decide who wins everything .

When eccentric millionaire Alistair Schreiber put me in his will, I was shocked.
Then I learned what he had an elaborate inheritance game.
Whoever remains in his mansion the longest, without leaving, wins everything.
This was already crazy AF.
Then I discovered who I was competing with.

Chase , the all-American hunk who was Alistair’s gardener. I’d had a crush on him since I started working at the mansion, and we shared plenty of flirty grins, but now we’re competing for the fortune.
Brody , the great-grandson—and only living relative—of Alistair. Although the chiseled California surfer-bro seems like a jerk at first, I soon learn that there’s much more than meets the eye.
Xander , the dashing estate lawyer in charge of overseeing the game. With a lean frame accentuated by his perfectly-tailored suit, Xander has an intensity to his gaze that stirs something inside of me every time we lock eyes.

The four of us have to learn to live together while searching every inch of the mansion for the cryptic clues Alistair left behind.
And all the while, each of us is harboring a shocking secret that may disqualify us from the inheritance.
Can I put aside my growing attraction to my competitors long enough to win?
Or will they discover what I’ve been hiding all along?

THE INHERITANCE is a sizzling Reverse Harem Romance full of mystery, suspense, and spicy romantic scenes. HEA guaranteed!

The Inheritance

Different and interesting!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😟🤭😤😘🙃

The heroine: Robyn – she worked as a caretaker for a 99-year-old man named Alistair Fritz Schreiber for the last 11 months. He had terrible arthritis, so she helped him get around, helped him take his medication and cooked for him. Though today she found out he died last night and left her something in his will.

The Heroes:
Chase – he is the part-time gardener for Mr. Schreiber. He also works as a remote computer programmer for a company in New York.
Brody – he is the great-grandson of Alistair Schreiber and only living relative. He is a pharmaceutical sales representative, and he loves to surf.
Xander – he is an estate lawyer, and he is executing the will of Alistair Schreiber.

The Story: Alistair Schreiber loved games and was a wealthy and eccentric man. He included his love into his will by making a game of who inherits his fortune. The three people closest to him have to stay in his mansion without leaving for anything. The person who stays the longest, inherits everything, the home, money and more. Xander has to stay as well to make sure Robyn, Chase and Brody are following the rules and don’t leave or destroy any property.

This was kind of a fun forced proximity romance. There were clauses of the will hidden throughout the house and some of them had fun things, like the fact that the person reading one of the cards has to strip down to his/her underwear for the day. Each of the characters were quirky in their own way and I loved them all. It was especially cute when Chase wanted to find a ghost in the mansion and ordered a bunch of ghost hunting equipment and ran from room to room trying to find proof of the paranormal. Brody was afraid of all the noises in the house and didn’t want to sleep in his room alone. Xander was also cute in that he loved trivia so much he studied flash cards.

The story was a lot more involved than I expected and all the players seemed to be hiding something, so there was a lot of intrigue and suspense. The search for each of the clauses of the will was pretty interesting as was what each of them had the players doing. Overall, it was a very different type of story than any I have read before and that made it interesting.

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