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A Deadly Inheritance by Kelley Armstrong

A Deadly Inheritance

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Kelley Armstrong

Tundra Book Group · Ebook · March 24, 2026

After discovering she's an heiress to a billion-dollar corporation, seventeen-year-old Liliana finds herself at a new boarding school where she must navigate secret societies and a deadly competition.

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Who it’s for
Elite-school intrigue and a dangerous inheritance give this YA thriller an uneasy edge.
Themes
Inheritance and family secrets, Dangerous elite-school life, Deaths of past students
Pacing
Fast

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About this book

After discovering she's an heiress to a billion-dollar corporation, seventeen-year-old Liliana finds herself at a new boarding school where she must navigate secret societies and a deadly competition. Not to mention two handsome boys. The Reappearance of Rachel Price meets The Inheritance Games series in this new YA thriller from bestselling author Kelley Armstrong. In the wake of her mother's death, Liliana Chamberlain's estranged (and very wealthy) grandparents swoop in.

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Or their lawyer does. Her grandparents aren't ready to meet her, but they want her to have the life her mother walked away from, starting with Westdale Academy, the elite boarding school her mother attended. It should be a Cinderella dream come true, but Lili has serious misgivings. Yet she doesn't have a choice, being under eighteen and dead broke. Westdale Academy is a school of secrets as well as intriguing classmates, including Hollywood golden boy Theo Dubois and the mysterious Maddox Moreno. As she gets to know them all, Lili realizes there's more to the school than elite-level networking. Something deadly. For the new girl at school, investigating the deaths of past students — including Maddox's own sister — is a very dangerous game. Do those deaths have something to do with why her mother fled Westdale at the cost of her inheritance? When a fun night out turns bloody, Theo is the prime suspect, and Liliana must race against time to connect the past with the present and discover the truth behind her inheritance.

Secrets at School

Elite-school intrigue and a dangerous inheritance give this YA thriller an uneasy edge.

Come here for

  • Secretive boarding-school circles and the uneasy pull of inherited wealth

Expect

  • Old student deaths and present danger tangled in a school mystery

Where it sits

Boarding School YA81%
YA Mysteries67%
Thrillers & Suspense49%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Boarding School YA
  • Peer Pressure for Teens
  • YA Crime Thrillers
Authors
Kelley Armstrong
Publisher
Tundra Book Group
Published
March 24, 2026
Format
Ebook
Theme
Inheritance and family secrets · Dangerous elite-school life · Deaths of past students
Reading lane
Boarding School YA