When Nora Carter is summoned to Blackwood House after the death of legendary author Theodore Vale, she expects a mistake.

Instead, she discovers her name written into his will.

Alongside six heirs she has never met, Nora is drawn into a deadly inheritance game built from seven wills, hidden rooms, buried secrets, and rules Theodore designed long before his death. Every will reveals another piece of the Vale family’s history, but the deeper Nora digs, the more she realizes that someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the past hidden.

Then the impossible happens.

Theodore Vale may not have died when everyone thought he did.

As alliances fracture and the heirs turn against one another, Nora uncovers a connection to the family that could change everything she thought she knew about herself. And someone is willing to kill to make sure the final secret never comes to light.

At Blackwood House, nothing is inherited without a price.

And the truth may be the most dangerous thing of all.