The Lies We Inherit: A Novel of Memory and Madness by Angela R. Key

Elise Scott did not inherit a grieving family. She inherited a machine.Behind the polished walls of Scott wealth lies something colder than scandal and far more dangerous than money: a private architecture of leverage, buried truths, coerced silence, and bloodline rot passed down through generations. What begins as inheritance quickly becomes initiation when Elise uncovers the hidden system her father spent a lifetime curating, one designed not simply to protect the powerful, but to control them.As she steps into authority, Elise learns that legacy is not measured by what a family owns.

It is measured by what it can conceal, what it can enforce, and who it can destroy without ever raising its voice.But power does not sit still. It tests. It attracts.

It corrupts. And the more Elise understands the world Richard Scott left behind, the more she realizes he was never the final shape of it. He was only its keeper.Cold, elegant, and relentlessly controlled, The Power Inherited is a prestige corruption thriller about inherited power, coercion, family mythology, and the terrifying ease with which order can become cruelty.