News The Inheritance Games Lionsgate Buys Rights to Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ Hit YA Series The Inheritance Games The young adult novels have sold over six million copies worldwide By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 16, 2025 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Photo Credit: Kim Haynes Photography Comment 0 Share New Share Jennifer Lynn Barnes Photo Credit: Kim Haynes Photography The Inheritance Games, Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ popular young adult series, is getting teed up for a scripted television show. Deadline broke the news that Lionsgate Television has optioned the rights to Barnes’ books, which start with 2020’s The Inheritance Games and has the following premise, per the book’s blurb: Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s touch and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he’s determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather’s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. The series, which has four books published to date that have sold a cumulative six million copies worldwide, appears to be more in the vein of a Dan Brown mystery (with a healthy dose of romance) than a fantasy or sci-fi story. The project is still in its early days, so no news yet on if/when the adaptation will move into production. [end-mark] The post Lionsgate Buys Rights to Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ Hit YA Series <i>The Inheritance Games</i> appeared first on Reactor.