I love Rachel Hawkins and this novel was full of her robust and real quips. That said, it wasn’t my favorite overall of her books and felt a bit predictable plot wise. Still a fun ride!

This was a wild ride!
I enjoyed the different POVs and different time lines. It worked out well with this story.
This book has it all. Dysfunctional rich family, kidnapping, murders, secrets, and lots of drama.
Ruby Mctavish leaves her wealth and mansion to her adopted son, Camden, when she dies and it does not go well with her blood family. But Camden hasn’t touched his inheritance and wants nothing to do with that family. Until there is another death in the family and his wife, Jules, helps convince him to help out with things at the Ashby House. And a lot of secrets come out!
I loved Ruby’s letters telling her story with each of her four husbands who all died while married to her. And of course a few more crazy twists come out.

This book was so good! Tons of family drama and juicy secrets. I love the way it was written in multiple point of views and the ending came together perfectly.

I loved The Heiress! This is my favorite Rachel Hawkins book since The Wife Upstairs.

Ruby McTavish, an heiress, is now dead and leaves behind money, mystery, and secrets. Her life was grand. From being kidnapped as a child to all four of her marriages ending up with the husband dead, her life was anything but boring. Her son has inherited her fortune, but he wants nothing to do with the remaining family or even the inheritance. This book is a complex tale told between 3 alternating points of view: Ruby, Ruby’s son, and Ruby’s daughter-in-law. This is a story of deep family and personal secrets. It is a novel that shows things aren’t always what they seem and the reasoning behind decisions are always more complicated than they appear. This book starts off strong and captivating with surprises throughout and never slows down until the satisfying end. I really enjoyed how complex this mystery/thriller was.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, Rachel Hawkins, and NetGalley for allowing me to read an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review.

This gets all the stars! I started The Heiress this morning and just finished it!
I love reading about horrible wealthy people, and hoping they’ll get what’s coming to them. This book had me questioning everyone and their motives. Even when something seemed straight forward, it wasn’t. There are 2 pov’s in the current timeline and dual time lines. This book was unputdownable!!
There are questionable identities, deaths, and motives for every event in this book! This is my favourite Rachel Hawkins book and she is now an auto-boy author for me.
Thanks to @netgalley and @stmartinspress for a digital advanced copy!
All opinions are my own. I highly recommend this story!

Within the past two months I have devoured all four of Rachel Hawkins adult novels and this is absolutely one of her best. She combines many of my favorite pieces of her style (mixed media, multi-POV) in a combination that really works.

I loved how flawed all of Hawkins protagonists are and how she combined you to root for them regardless and she did this so effectively with Jules and Cam.

I will pick up whatever she writes (but will always hope for most twisty stories with gothic hints). Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martins Press for the ARC.

I really enjoyed the dual POV chapters mixed in with letters of Ruby’s past. I wasn’t expecting to learn how all 3 main characters were connected, which is typical of Rachel Hawkins writing. Overall I enjoyed the book and am very thankful to have received an eARC. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher.

Family, while blood or inherited, can be interesting.

As a young girl, Ruby McTavish goes missing. She is later found, and her life with her husbands and son are explained in a series of letters. She now has passed, and her son Camden, his wife Jules, and the extended family all meet up at Ashby House, which everyone but Camden wants to own, along with Ruby's fortune. What other secrets are abound? Read this engrossing book and sift through the twists and turns to see how it all plays out.

I truly enjoyed this book and found myself wanting to keep going after something new happens at the end of each chapter. There's a big showdown at the end that you won't see coming.

Told in multiple POVs, we unravel the life and legacy of Ruby McTavish and Ashby House.

We see her life through letters she has written, detailing her infamous marriages. We also follow her adopted son, Cam, as he returns to Ashby house into less-than-welcome embrace from surviving McTavishes. Lastly, we have Jules, his wife who may know more than she is letting on.

This was a pretty quick read. There are some pretty good twists in the book that I really enjoyed. Only critique is that things may have wrapped up a little too neatly.

This story had three very distinct narrators, and it was done in a way I don’t remember ever reading before. I enjoyed each viewpoint and their individual personalities came out in each section to pull the story forward.

The ending threw me off a bit because it felt like we spent all this time building up the story and then to have info-dumping the last 10 pages. I would have enjoyed to “be there” for the action instead of a wrap-up. I really enjoyed the story and would like to read more by this author.

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for a review.

Twisty psychological page turner that keeps you constantly engaged. Told from three points of view, the first being the letters of Ruby McTavish. This deceased 4x widowed heiress started life sensationally as a kidnapped toddler and her life had plenty of secrets to share. Her adopted son Cam and his wife Jules are the other points of view. Trying to make a life of his own Cam is estranged from the family and living in California.
Reluctantly Cam ,with wife Jules, return to the McTavish ancestral home of Ashby House to settle the estate. The wealthy entitled McTavish clan have never accepted Rubys’ adopted son or his inheritance. This is a manipulative family of dark secrets. Everyone here is hiding something and very possibly Ruby herself is pulling the strings from beyond the grave. Quick read that you don’t want to put down. Thanks to netgalley and St Martins press.

I have to say, this may be my favorite Rachel Hawkins book yet. Such a fast paced read with so many twists and secrets that kept me guessing till the end.

What. A. Ride. This is my favorite Rachel Hawkins book--and I've enjoyed all of her books. I read this in one sitting - it's intriguing, fast-paced, and definitely keeps you guessing. The multiple characters are all after something different --some redemption, some what they feel they are owed, and all in it for themselves and their best interest. Don't miss this!
Thank you to NetGalley, and the publisher, for the opportunity to read this advance arc.

A great read for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. The McTavish family is known as southern royalty. Ruby McTavish is the heiress to the family’s millions. Of course, a heiress always comes with scandal. Ruby’s adopted son Camden and his wife Jules are living a wholesome lifestyle thousands of miles away. Years ago, Camden walked away from the family fortune left in his name. Now, he and Jules travel back the McTavish’s Ashby House, and Jules discovers the mystery behind Camden walking away from a fortune.

As a Rachel Hawkins fan, I couldn’t wait to read The Heiress. Ruby’s story kept me up at night and I couldn’t wait to figure out the mystery. I enjoyed the Easter eggs referring her past books. Overall, The Heiress is a great choice for anyone needing a deep family mystery.

Thank you to NetGalley & St Martins Press for an ARC of this book, in exchange for my honest opinion.

I am a huge fan of Rachel’s thrillers, and even though this was an addictive and quick thriller (read it in one sitting), it just wasn’t my favorite story by her. It was a bit confusing of a read as it’s told in alternating points of view between Cam and his wife Jules, and then it’s also interweaved with letters from Cams mother Ruby detailing her life story.

Cam and Jules are finally heading back to NC to Cams family estate; Ashby House. Jules has never met any of Cams family, or been to the family house. Cam’s childhood was an interesting one as he was adopted by the rich and famous Ruby McTavish. He was plucked out of his life in foster care and grew up in the lap of luxury. But it wasn’t enough for him, and as an adult he fled Ashby House to the other side of the country in California.

Cam is hoping this trip back to Ashby House will be a bit of closure of coming to terms with the death of his mom, and tying up loose ends with the remainder of his family. But nothing is as it seems at Ashby House, and soon secrets start coming out. Will Cam & Jules still get there happily ever after even though everything in Ashby house becomes cursed?

A quick and easy read, if you’re looking for a new thriller!

A little bit of Inheritance Games meets Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I found it hard to root for any of the characters, as they were all so unlikable, This was an unpredictable and enjoyable read over all, though I found it awkwardly paced.

I liked the writing style of this book and I feel like it had a lot of potential but the ending just didn’t do it for me

This was super interesting twist on some tales that have been told before. I enjoyed the multiple viewpoints and though some elemets of the plot felt forced, over all it worked.

The twist at the end of this definitely surprised me. I really enjoyed the toxic family relationships that were in this book!

Rachel Hawkins is one of my auto-buy authors. Her books are twisty without being overly complex, and her characters are sometimes unlikeable, but always realistic and believable. The Heiress is the latest of Rachel’s fun, suspenseful novels, and, although almost all of the characters are reprehensible liars, I absolutely loved the story. It’s hard to say too much without giving away some of the big reveals, but get your hands on a copy of The Heiress ASAP!