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The steps / by Wendelin Van Draanen.
"Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen plays a deadly game to keep her step family from stealing her wealthy (but dysfunctional) family's fortune"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780823460380 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 248 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Holiday House, 2025.
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| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Young adult fiction. Novels. |
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- B & T Entertainment
In this twisty thriller, 14-year-old chess prodigy Ruby Vossen must outmaneuver her scheming stepfamily and unravel dark family secrets after a tragic accident and rising tensions threaten to turn deadly, forcing her to play the ultimate game of strategy to protect her legacy?â?and her life. - Baker & Taylor
"Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen plays a deadly game to keep her step family from stealing her wealthy (but dysfunctional) family's fortune"-- Provided by publisher. - Random House, Inc.
Riverdale meets The Queenâs Gambit in this fun, twisty thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author, featuring a deliciously dysfunctional family with dark secrets and shifting alliances.
Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen tries to keep to herself. She refuses to be a pawn in her wealthy familyâs web of deception.
But ever since Rubyâs mother and aunt died in a car wreck, the battle lines drawn within the Vossen clan have ruled her life. Rubyâs father and uncle became irreparably estranged, and within months, Rubyâs cousin/BFF was banished from her life, her father remarried, and she wound up with a gold-digging stepmom who has two teens of her ownâThe Steps.Â
So when strange and dangerous things begin happening on the Vossen estate, Ruby sees only one logical explanation: The Steps are scheming to inherit the Vossen fortune. And as things get more and more intense, it seems like killing is in their playbook.Â
Luckily, Ruby has her own playbook, and sheâs not about to go down without a fight. Sheâll even break her dadâs rules to get her cousin back on her side of the chessboard . . . Itâs time to check-mate The Steps before they can finish the Vossens off.
Secrets, lies, and lethal threats abound in this clever, quirky thriller by the award-winning, bestselling author of Flipped and the Sammy Keyes mysteries.
