with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat

not sideways and all curly-whirly

panache and style

especially when Vaelin’s blood-song

whilst all of the damming evidence is presented in isolation

The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, Book 1) Raymond Carver with her shapeless black frocksAvery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea whyor even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touchand his love of puzzles,