Such a fun read! Gone Girl meets Knives Out meets Evelyn Hugo. 🔥 4.5 stars rounded up to 5. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC!

Another addictive read from Rachel Hawkins. I really enjoyed the gothic vibes and the mountain setting helped add to the eerie atmosphere. So entrancing and thrilling!

Rachel Hawkins has become an auto buy for me. The Heiress continues to prove that. A twisty novel that is twisted…it’s about family money and the terrible things people do or become to keep or steal it. Hawkins is so good in this niche genre of gothic/emo thrillers. This is how you write a good book about terrible people. Many have tried but few have succeeded as well as this book and this author. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review. If this is your genre HIGHLY Recommend!

I will admit that I've never read anything by Rachel Hawkins. Yes I have seen the gorgeous covers of her other novels yet never picked one up to read her style of writing and how she crafts a story. I was fortunate enough to read an ARC of The Heiress due out in January 2024. I found the novel and the characters to be fascinating,complex and interesting. I loved reading about the mystery surrounding Ruby McTavish and did not see the twist coming at the end of the novel. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to dip their toes into Rachel Hawkins writing and will be finding and reading her other novels soon.

Great twists and turns in this story! Ruby goes missing as a toddler on her parents vast property in North Carolina and is found alive miraculously or was it? Ruby continues to grow up in Ashby manor as the favorite child of her father and becomes the heiress of the McTavish family fortune. She marries Duke Callahan before leaving college whom mysteriously dies on their honeymoon, Ruby continues to find love and marry 4 times and all her husbands find their untimely demise under unusual circumstances. The McTavish family tries to find any way to inherit more of the family fortune and Ruby rubs it in their face by adopting an orphan, Cam, and leaves him as the sole heir after her death.
Cam in the current timeline has nothing to do with the McTavish family and lives in Colorado with his wife Jules. They live a modest life as a teacher and community theater actress. All is well until Cam is called home to settle this estate once and for all with the remaining McTavish family his cousins Ben and Libby and aunt Nelle.
This family has many secrets and they all come to light in the fight to settle this estate. Hawkins will keep you guessing with each relationship and who is who they really say they are and what really happens. I could not put this book down between the descriptions of the landscapes and house to who said what and who are they.

Rachel Hawkins novels have become can't miss books of the year! The Heiress is no exception. In this story we alternate POV between Ruby McTavish's letters, her adopted son, Cam, and finally his wife, Jules. Ruby has been dead for about ten years when this story begins. And in that time Cam has not returned to their family estate in North Carolina. Finally an email from his estranged cousin convinces him to return. He and Jules arrive to find his two cousins and aunt still living in the family estate. It's clear they want to own the house and the family money. Unfortunately, Ruby left all of it to Cam.

The level of unhinged behavior in this book! Ruby was missing as a three year old, found miles away in Alabama, making everyone question if it's really her or someone else. As an adult Ruby marries four times and each husband dies an untimely death. Cam and Jules are both also holding their own secrets from each other and the rest of the family.

This book was very hard to put down! So many things happen and you just want to get to the bottom of all the drama. If you enjoy a good unhinged family with lots of money check this out in January when it hits shelves. Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC!

At first this one took some time for me to get into and I am not sure why. I think I wanted to have more suspense in it and was almost expecting that. Overall, great writing and the storyline turned out well!

Believe it or not, this was my first Rachel Hawkins read! I cannot believe it took me this long. This story had scandal and intrigue that was so juicy. I refused to put it down. This book is a must-read for avid thriller readers.

I can't wait to binge-read everything Hawkins. has written. Her. writing style and tone of voice is *chefs kiss*

This was a great story to read. For me, the beginning was a bit slow/confusing, but as I continued on, it started to make sense and pull me in. It is a tangle of lies, deceit, jealousy, secrets, death(s) and everything that comes with being wealthy or in a wealthy family. It really drew me in especially with the letters. I did find there are quite a few "F" bombs. I do not really see the need for these in any book (just my opinion). I thoroughly enjoyed The Heiress and could not put it down. I finished it in 2 settings. I did love the ending though. Would highly recommend to other readers. I also enjoyed the author's writing style.

This story in a lot of ways reminded me of the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo, a book I loved. The alternation between the POV of Cam, Jules, and the letters from the dead heiress were really interesting and made the story fly by. Took a bit to get started but the end really brought it up for me.

Well, that was certainly a twisted story! It follows Jules and Cam, a couple who have been married for ten years. Cam has been summoned back to his ancestral home after having run away from all the wealth many years prior.

This book stacked secret upon secret, lie upon lie. Suffice it to say, the McTavish family has plenty of skeletons in the closet! I don’t want to say much else about the plot because I think it’s a book that you should just dive into blind if you’re at all interested in it. The writing was good, and the story moved along quickly. This author definitely doesn’t shy away from darkness in her characters, but if you’re interested in domestic thrillers with horrible truths coming to light, definitely give it a try.

5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

THIS BOOK!

I have to admit - I’ve never read a Rachel Hawkins book, but when I saw this gorgeous cover on NetGalley it took me less than 2 seconds to hit that request button. I was hoping that the inside pages were going to be just as satisfying. Wow, satisfying isn’t even close to being the right word for what I just read!

Told through multiple POVs and letters that give an insight into the past, we learn just how much money, greed and power can bring out the absolute worst in families - especially when there is a death involved.

I found this one very hard to put down. It is FILLED with drama, juicy secrets, lies and insane twists!

This is easily one of the top books I’ve read this year! It’s a must read for fans of the genre. I’m looking forward to reading some of her other books. I’m a new fan!

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press and Rachel Hawkins for my advanced copy to read and review.

Cam and Jules make their way to Cam's family home in this thriller by Rachel Hawkins. It's not at all what Jules expected or hoped for. The sprawling mansion that Cam's adopted mother Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore left to him is in need of repairs and the remaining McTavish family members are not at all happy about his arrival. There are many layers of complexity in this book and I devoured each one. Ruby's past is fascinating and very clearly still has pull over Cam and Jules in the present. This is a quick, thrilling read.

This book will draw you in immediately! I was dragging my feet on even reading this book because it just seemed blah and I was completely wrong. It was brilliant and messy and filled with so much drama and pain and murder. I loved it all. I really loved the format and how it was written, ai looked forward to every single one of Ruby’s letters and I loved all the news articles in there. I wasnt expecting that little shock in the epilogue so nicely done there Rachel Hawkins. If you are into soap operas or family drama this book is totally for you.

Rachel Hawkins does it again. Her writing style is unique in that it combines the use of past, present and clippings from newspapers and letters to keep the reader's fully engaged. It's filled with suspense and is jam-packed with secrets, when revealed, are both unexpected but thrilling. The amount of mystery and drama within this book makes it hard to put this one down.

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins is a twisty, well paced story about family, the secrets we keep and what we'll do to maintain them.
This is the story of Camden, a 30-something man returning to his family home after his mother has passed to deal with the large fortune that she left behind and the family he's worked so hard to distance himself from.
Told from 3 alternating points of view, I absolutely loved this. It had a gothic feel that I loved and it kept me guessing until the very end.
Please find attached my spoiler free youtube review for more in-depth thoughts.

4.5 ⭐️

Ruby McTavish was lost as a child and then found and returned 8 months later to her SUPER rich family. She then lived a full life and married four men, all of whom died in different ways, and speculation of the community that she might have killed them branded her as Mrs. Kill-more. With no children of her own, she adopts Camden and raises him, and leaves the family fortune to him after her death. Camden, who wants nothing to do with his family and his inheritance, reluctantly goes back to his inherited estate with his wife Jules, to help fix the home he grew up in. Whilst doing so, the readers get to know the lives of the dysfunctional McTavish family and uncover their secrets.

This book was truly a page-turner with its complicated characters and their mysteries. It was told through letters from Ruby, and Camden and Jules’s POV, and it was interesting to read from the three characters’ POV to see the complexity of their thoughts and emotions, and the secrets were insane! Jules cracked me up throughout the book with her witty retorts lol. This book shocked me a lot, and the ending was wild!

Thank you St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for this ARC!

3.75 stars. I liked the articles and journals mixed in the two POVs. Some of the twists felt predictable and most of the characters were unlikeable. I thought I liked a few characters initially but their flaws felt too significant. Once I got to 50% I was “turning” the pages. Not my favorite by this author but will continue to read her books!

THE HEIRESS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ wow, I LOVED this book! The secrets and drama were captivating, I read this in a day and would do it again. I am always a fan of a thriller and feel like I can typically predict the twists, and I definitely did not with this one. Loved and highly recommend. Read it on a day you can binge 😂

As the novel opens you might think The Heiress is going to be another The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but turns out to be a very dark version of Hulu's Only Murders in the Building. The Heiress is Ruby McTavish- her husbands have one thing in common: they all died under mysterious circumstances. At three years old, Ruby, daughter of the fabulously wealthy Mason McTavish and his fragile wife Anna, wandered away from her family during a picnic near their home, but was discovered months later living with a much poorer husband and wife. Although Ruby does not remember this time in her childhood, it can't help but reverberate in her life as an adult. The Heiress is told in triple point of view-by Ruby in letters that reveal what really happened to her husbands; Ruby's son Camden, and Cam's wife Jules. And Ruby is not the only person in this threesome with secrets. The Heiress is gripping and very twisty-you'll barely catch your breath before another "I never saw that coming" moment has you gasping for air again. Like a train wreck you can't take your eyes off of, you might have trouble putting The Heiress down for mundane things like eating or sleeping (forget about working!). The plot does veer into over the top territory, but it works perfectly for a gem like Ruby.