The Heirs
The Button heirs are infamous: five adopted young geniuses who have had incredible success laid out for them by their billionaire adoptive father, Leontes Button, through his ‘Button Method’ for producing genius children. But what happens when the gameplayer dies and the prodigal siblings are no longer forced to be pawns in his game?
Àbíké-Íyímídé’s murder-mystery thriller follows the five Button heirs as they navigate life after the death of their father on the night of his prestigious and highly anticipated Prodigy Ball. Though they share a father and a carefully cultivated brilliance which sets each of them apart from the rest of the world, the Button siblings couldn’t be more unlike each other – one ‘Maestro,’ one ‘Brain,’ one ‘Olympian,’ one ‘Artist,’ and one ‘Failure’ – and none of them exempt as suspects in their father’s death.
Different pawns, different purposes, but did Leontes Button always see them in this way? When the Heirs are hurled from their isolated paths of success and forced together for the first time in months, they must face dark secrets and decide what ‘family’ truly means to them.
The Heirs follows characters which are refreshingly layered, complex and hilarious. The family drama is full of tension, twists and revelations – a true rollercoaster of emotions passing through a game of life (and death).
