Winners and Liars

Knives Out meets Death at Morning House in this thrilling standalone mystery layered with family secrets, the whitewashing of history, and a high-stakes literary competition for the keys to a Victorian-era English estatefrom Aleema Omotoni, the NAACP Image Award-winning author of Everyones Thinking It.

Derins acceptance into Cambridge University is the end of an erajust not the one she expected.

When she and her ultra-competitive Uni prep group, the Kenfield Set, were first invited to Professor Darnleys summer ball, they planned on celebrating the groups success, surrounded by the riches of his historical Kenfield estatenot kicking off the festivities with the professors will reading.

But when the Darnleys aristocratic children are disinherited, the students are offered the opportunity of a lifetime: compete in a Victorian, literary-inspired inheritance competition to be named the new heirwinner takes all!

For Derin, its a chance to help her working-class family. But the remaining Darnleys wont take losing their stately home and its multimillion-pound inheritance lying down. And added to the mix, a mysterious note is slipped under Derins door alluding to a dark family secret lying in wait.

Now Derin must balance the cutthroat games; scheming relatives; and a cute Kenfield intern amid her dawning realization that the history of this inheritance might be soaked in lies . . . and blood.