Brian Darr

When fifteen strangers meet for the reading of billionaire Victor Stone's will, they're prepared to inherit a fortune that will change their lives forever. Some are surprised to be there. Others, confused. The common thread in the room is that no one was on good terms with Victor when he died. Each beneficiary had betrayed or wronged Victor in his life and his final revenge is in his will, which states everything he's worth is to go to the sole survivor of the beneficiaries listed. Only after fourteen death certificates have been submitted will his fortune be released to the last living among them. Tontine is book 1 in a series of 7, which begins with the death of a jaded man, and follows the aftermath of his revenge from beyond the grave. Fifteen people are bound forever, their lives tested as they are forced to fight temptation, paranoia, the macabre position of rooting for their contemporaries to die, and ultimately, to resist the urge to act on an opportunity to have whatever they want at a high cost.