Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the advanced copy of The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins.

Cam MacTavish and his wife Jules find themselves back in Cam's childhood home after years of pleas by his extended family to return and assist them with the upkeep. Cam is the only heir of Ruby MacTavish , North Carolina's richest woman who also has a bit of a past as she was kidnapped when she was a toddler and has also been a widow four times over.

Cam returns to Tavistock and is greeted with mixed feelings from the town and his family upon his return. This book leaves you questioning, do you really need money to be happy?

I read a Rachel Hawkins book last year and really enjoyed it but this one unfortunately fell flat for me. It felt like I never dove really deep into any of the characters so it was hard to connect whether you were routing for them or shocked by their behavior. The premise of the book was great but its pages never gripped me the way I had hoped they would. I was left wanting more. More about Ruby and Cam's relationship, more about Cam's childhood and his connection to the family and Ruby.

Loved the twist at the very end!

When the richest and most notorious woman of North Carolina dies her adopted son Camden doesn't want anything to do with his moms money or her home. He doesn't care to deal with the remaining McTavish's either. He decides to reject the inheritance and love the life he wants. He moves to Colorado where he becomes an English teacher and marries Jules, someone who wants to put their past behind them just like himself. Its now ten years later and his Uncle has died taking him back to a place he never wanted to revisit again. Soon the mysteries from his past come to a head making him delve into all the things that happened all those years ago. Follow along to see how Camden and Jules deal with all the mysteries coming to light, is the inheritance still not worth the trouble or will greed make an appearance?

Filled with a cast of mostly unlikable, reality TV-worthy characters, this book is a fast read that I could have easily binge read in one day had it not been for work/commitments (dang it). The story is told from multiple POVs and it took me a few chapters to get the characters sorted out. Then there was a giant carrot dangled in my face and I couldn't read fast enough. I wanted to know the why and the how, and sure enough all of the answers are revealed to the multiple secrets that are hinted at, through several twists and turns. I found the ending to be very clever. Rachel Hawkins is an excellent story teller! I enjoyed the additional story telling through newspaper and magazine articles, as well as handwritten letters.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I really enjoy Rachel Hawkins books! They all have a really unique plot and have a way of sucking you in. This one is no exception. We get multiple POVs, Camden and Jules, and Cam’s mother Ruby via letters. We are taken to present day, where Camden and Jules are forced to come back to the estate of Camden’s rich and wealthy family after leaving many years ago. As the plot unfolds, we are then taken back to Ruby’s lost letters and the plot thickens! I loved the twist and turns in this!! Did not see that ending at all. So good!

This book gave family drama, secrets and the dual timelines overlapped perfectly! Not to mention the gothic nature of the story. I did find a few times the story dragged on a bit with a lot of detail but overall I can see why so many people loved this one! I think it would be perfect for someone new to thrillers.

I had super high hopes for this book and while it wasn't terrible, it was okay. I found parts of the plot to be disjointed and confusing.

The premise was exciting, but it was hard to follow along with the back and forth of the letters and, perhaps I'm an idiot, but I had a hard time grasping who was related to who at the end.

Also, while I understood the point was to show the differences between the haves and have-nots, I found the references to "dead white men" forced. It's become cliche and overdone at this point.

This is a fun, campy book though and I think it's perfect for those who like a bit of a popcorn thriller.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an e-book copy of THE HEIRESS to review.

I rate THE HEIRESS three out of five stars.

Five addicting and heart racing solid stars for Rachel Hawkins newest book. Hawkins has the ability to write in a heart throbbing and page turning pace with twists and turns coming from multiple directions. Told in 3 POV.
Ruby McTavish goes missing as a toddler. She quickly is reunited with her rich, powerful, and influential NC family… while another mother insists the “missing” Ruby who is reunited with the McTavish’s is her daughter.
Fast forward and after multiple (left widowed marriages) Ruby adopts a young boy (Cam). Now she has an heiress to leave the family estate and fortune to. Cam (POV) wants to live his life and on his terms and his own earnings.
After Rubys death his wife Jules (POV) talks him into going back home and settle the drama/ inheritance/crisis. Ohh Cams family wants their well deserved fortune and won’t stop until they get it all. After all - they’re blood!!! Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for a spectator read.

Another gushing review, this is craziness. I’m on a roll this year though and The Heiress isn’t going to be the book to break it. I flew through this book because I had to know what was going to happen. The level of dysfunction was next level and pretty much the only level I want to read from now on. You just don’t know who to trust and watching rich people being bad is so very fun. Great flow, plot and characters, The Heiress had it all.

Really enjoyed this. I’m not usually a suspense reader, but I stayed up late to finish this one. Loved the twists … I didn’t guess it all!

I have read all of Rachel Hawkins'books and this has been my favorite. The plot of this book is very complex and it is like a puzzle mystery. Jules and Camden are a struggling young couple when he is summoned home to his family estate to settle it. But everyone has secrets and no one is who they seem to be. I especially liked his mother Ruby's letters explaining the demise of her four husbands - it reminded me of Evelyn Hugo. The bo0k really is a big sweeping saga that goes from the 1940's to present day. My only complaint is that the end maybe had just too much crammed into it and it seemed a bit rushed.. But I do like it when an author answers all my questions! Read this one - you wont be sorry!

4.5 star

WOW I read this in less than a day. This was SO good! I loved every second of it. I loved the almost gothic-esque description, which added to it feeling very eerie. I love a dual POV. This one did feel more of a very dramatic family saga with elements of a thriller as opposed to a straight up psychological thriller.


I only knocked it down to 4.5 because I saw a lot of it coming BUT that didn’t make it less of a fun and totally engrossing read!

I would definitely recommend this to fans of Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware.

Thank you to St Martins Press and Netgalley for my copy of this!

I'm a fan of Rachel's and her books. This is my fourth read by her and this was another edge of your seat read. The twists and turns kept coming. Story about a family with more secrets and Skeltons in the closet than none other. This book moved at a pace just enough to keep drawing you in, Is the heiress really the heiress? Some of this book read through tantalizing letters that sound real!
Thank you to Netgalley, St. Martins press and the Author, Rachel Hawkins for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

**4.5 stars**

Dang, I almost did not request this on NetGalley as I didn’t really care for The Wife Upstairs or Reckless Girls but I am very glad I did, it was an excellent page turner! I loved the setting of Ashby House and loved the characters of Ruby, Jules, and Camden. We only meet Ruby through her letters and Camden’s memories but she was fully fleshed out.

The reason I didn’t give it 5 stars has do with the timeline of ages of certain female characters, I can’t say more without spoiling the story.

Loved the ending as well.

Thanks so much to the author and St Martin’s Press for the e-arc I received from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

Rachel Hawkins, what on earth did I just read!? My mind is trying to process that ending. There were so many unexpected twists and turns that kept me intrigued. A wealthy family filled with drama, lies, secrets, and plenty of backstabbing.

Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore's was North Carolina's richest woman. She was the victim of a well-known kidnapping and a 4 time widow. She was the one who ruled the Ashby House, and it's tiny NC town. She left her adopted son, Camden, everything when she passed away, but he didn't want any part in it.

Ten years later, Camden and his wife Jules find themselves traveling back to the Ashby House after his uncles death. Back in the house, Camden is soon reminded why he walked away from his inheritance. Questions about the past began to surface, and the truth will soon leave your jaw hanging open!

What a twisty thriller! This book kept me on my toes throughout the whole book! I loved all the little twist even up until the very end. The letters from Ruby made this book even better! I love this author and the way she can tell a story from so many different people’s perspectives! This was a five star for me!

WOWWWW! I wasn't expecting all those twists! I loved the thriller with the Evelyn Hugo vibes! Loved the setting in Asheville, with the rich family drama vibes as well. Great story plot that kept twisting, just when I thought I had it figured out! I highly recommend this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion!

I really enjoyed the different media outlets used to tell this intriguing story. Thank you NetGalley for this eARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Amazing!! I have read The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins before, but I did not enjoy it as much as I enjoyed The Heiress. This book follows Camden and his wife Jules who are going back to where Camden grew up. Camden is the adopted child of Ruby McTavish. Ruby is like the IT girl of their town in North Carolina. The McTavish's are considered royalty. However, when Ruby was a 3 year old girl. She vanished and seemingly appeared 3 months later. Ruby has no recollections of the events, and some people are just not who they seem in this novel. I really couldn't put the book down at all and I loved it.

I loved The Wife Upstairs, and this one also did not disappoint! It was gripping and captivating, grabbing my attention early on.

Even though the infamous Ruby McTavish is dead, the secrets she has spent a lifetime trying to conceal remain to haunt her family. When Ruby's son Cam receives a desperate message to come home and settle Ruby's estate, he realizes the time has come to leave his past behind for good. Jules, Cam's wife, wants to learn more about the past her husband never speaks of...and the grand estate he once called home. When the pair arrive at the remote Ashby House, they quickly see that the McTavish family is ready to claim what is theirs, no matter the cost.

Told through dual points of view and interspersed with letters from Ruby, Rachel Hawkins crafts a propulsive novel full of family secrets and complex lies. With all the pieces of the puzzle present, readers have the opportunity to play along and uncover the McTavish family secrets and the mysterious deaths of Ruby's four husbands page by page before reaching the satisfying conclusion.

Thank you to Netgalley and St. Maartin's Press for providing this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

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