Notorious Virtues Hamiltonov Alwyn (2025)

Who will be the next heiress? Let the Veritaz trials commence. The bestselling author of Rebel of the Sands returns with a glittering fantasy thriller duology about a family obsessed with money, power, fame and magic. At sixteen, Honora Nora Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in Gamanix; her family controls all the money and all the magic in the country. When her mother is found murdered in an alley, the family throne and fortune are up for grabs, pitting Nora against her cousins in the deadly Veritaz trials to determine the rightful inheritor. But there is a surprise rival in Ottoline, also known as Lotte, the illegitimate daughter of Noras aunt, who was left with nuns as a baby. Thrown into the Veritaz, she suddenly finds herself surrounded by a hostile family she never knew she had. As the Holtzfalls wage their battles of privilege, something bigger and more sinister is bubbling beneath the surface, and revolution is in the air. Incredible tests, impossible choices and deadly odds await both girls, but there can only be one winner.