From Boardroom to Bedroom

Prologue

“And the estate, businesses, and all holdings will go to Miranda Dupree.”

“You’ve got to be kidding me.” Sophie Blackwood refused to stay silent. She didn’t know exactly what to do, what to say, but she couldn’t just sit there and do nothing.

How in the hell did her father’s ex-wife—his very young ex-wife—manage to sweep the entire inheritance? She was nothing but a gold-digging socialite.

Unacceptable.

Sophie and her father had never been close, but to will everything to the much younger woman who was no longer even his wife was a slap in the face.

Buckley “Buck” Blackwood continued to disappoint her even in death. Sophie glanced over to the woman in question who actually had the nerve to look surprised. Please, like she hadn’t dug her claws so deep into Sophie’s father... She knew this moment was coming.

shifted her focus to her brothers who were equally as stunned at the will that their father’s lawyer, Kace LeBlanc, kept right on reading from, listing off each item, as if

nonsense. She loved her brothers, but

of the star of Secret Lives of NYC Ex-Wives—New York’s version of The

grated on

stuff from Buck—not the money and not the ranch. Granted, Sophie didn’t need

was? There had to be a way to prove she wasn’t all high and mighty like so many believed.

pit of anger in her gut, she met Kellan and Vaughn’s

just needed to get away from her father’s house, where she’d

She needed a break. She just wanted an escape even if for just a few days. Royal, Texas, was such a

them was bound to be the talk of the town for weeks. Everywhere she went, people would

maybe she could turn the situation to her advantage. All the talking everyone would be doing about the scandalous Blackwood inheritance would lead to lots of talk about Miranda, too. If Sophie could uncover anything—a