Steve, estranged from his parents, is set to inherit a fortune from the equally estranged grandfather he knows nothing about.
This will not only set him up for life, but will go a long way to helping the family he found, and he's ecstatic that he can finally put some of his family's enormous wealth to good use and pissing off his parents while doing it.)
Problem?
The guy was a huge fan of games, puzzles and riddles. The reading of his will isn't one, it's the introduction to one last game he requires Steve to play to inherit, elsewise the fortune goes somewhere undisclosed.
Enter: world champion Logic & Puzzle Master Eddie Munson, bored out of his fucking mind (and utterly failing at writing a mystery-horror novel.)
Dustin, a superfan of Eddie's, reaches out to him begging for help (and agreeing to give him reward money if he does so, a little fact he did not tell Steve) and Eddie agrees, thinking this is going to be a cake walk.
It isn't.
See, turns out, Steve's grandpa is actually Eddie's favorite mystery and tabletop game writer, and a world-class puzzle maker in his own right.
Eddie is losing his mind living out a dream come true, while Steve is rolling his eyes behind him the whole way.
(The twist is that while the inheritance was for Steve, the game was for Eddie, whom Steve's Gramps was well aware of, and the old sot managed to manipulate things so that no matter what route Steve and Co. went, Eddie would eventually get pulled into the game.
He wasn't expecting Eddie and Steve to fall in love along the way but had he watched the entire thing play out live, he would have been delighted by the surprise.)
As a bonus Robin, Nancy and Chrissy get pulled in to a side plot involving them Nancy Drewing a local true crime mystery involving Steve's grandpa's massive fucking house.
