The Grandest Game Books in Order

The Grandest Game series is a spin off set after the events of the main Inheritance Games trilogy and The Brothers Hawthorne. Instead of Tobias Hawthorne running the show, these books follow Avery and the Hawthorne brothers as they design and host their own high stakes competition on Hawthorne Island.

In The Grandest Game, seven players secure golden tickets that grant them entry to an overnight contest with a multimillion dollar prize. Contestants like Savannah and Gigi Grayson, dancer Lyra, British fixer Rohan, grad student Brady, tech minded Knox, and sharp witted Odette bring their own motives and secrets. The hosts divide them into teams, lock them in themed rooms, and force them to work together even as they compete.

The challenges range from riddles and physical tasks to social dilemmas that test trust and loyalty. While Avery, Nash, Jameson, and Xander observe from a control room, Grayson is pulled into the game in an unexpected way, blurring the line between host and player. Underneath the puzzles, hints emerge that outside forces and old enemies may have found ways to interfere.

Glorious Rivals continues directly from there, moving the remaining players to new stages of the contest, including time aboard a luxury yacht and further trials on the island. Alliances shift as Rohan and Savannah face off, Lyra and Grayson grow closer while chasing clues tied to their families, and everyone begins to realize that the prize on the line is not only money but survival.

The upcoming finale, The Gilded Blade, is positioned as the capstone for the entire Hawthorne saga. It promises to pull together threads from the original inheritance, the Devil’s Mercy, the Grandest Game, and the long running question of who has really been pulling strings behind the scenes.

Compared with the first trilogy, these books lean even harder into strategy, competition, and the psychology of games, while still offering romance, family drama, and the emotional fallout of growing up in the shadow of Tobias Hawthorne. They work best for readers who already know the main players and want to see what happens when those players become game designers themselves.