The Last Legacy by Adrienne Young

New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with The Last Legacy, a captivating standalone about family and blood ties, reinventing yourself, and controlling your own destiny.

When a letter from her uncle Henrik arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, summoning her back to Bastian, Bryn is eager to prove herself and finally take her place in her long-lost family.

Henrik has plans for Bryn, but she must win everyone’s trust if she wants to hold any power in the delicate architecture of the family. It doesn’t take long for her to see that the Roths are entangled in shadows. Despite their growing influence in upscale Bastian, their hands are still in the kind of dirty business that got Bryn’s parents killed years ago. With a forbidden romance to contend with and dangerous work ahead, the cost of being accepted into the Roths may be more than Bryn can pay.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269227-the-last-legacy

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My Review: 5/5 Stars 

If you read Fable and Namesake, you definitely want to check this book out! (And I would suggest reading those before this one since they technically take place before and you will have a lot better understanding of the world and even the Roth family.) Set in the same world, we follow a Roth we have not yet met before: Bryn. She returns to Bastian after her eighteenth birthday to join the rest of her family after being brought up by her great-aunt. Though Bryn has heard the tales of her well known family and has been taught important skills to take her place, she is still unprepared for what that truly means. The Roth family as we have seen before has its secrets and influence and own sort of power. But there is still one thing the family, or really Henrik, wants. A guild ring. He is almost there but he will need Bryn to get him through the final hoops. As Bryn tries to prove herself she can't help but be pulled to Ezra, the silversmith and the only one in the household who is not a Roth. He was taken in by Henrik when he was a child after discovering his skill as a silversmith and has been there ever since. Like the stories before this one, there are plenty of twists and turns, secrets and lies, and bargains that you won't see coming. Everyone is playing a game and no one wants to lose. Bryn learns quickly that the best way to survive is to look at for herself but can she truly do that when she comes to care for some who her under the same roof? She'll have to truly become a Roth to forge and save her own future. I really loved this story. It was quite the insight to the mysterious Roth family. We saw glimpses of them in the previous books but now we get a more inside look and they are just as complicated as we previously saw them. Great follow up story in this world!