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.

lawyer, Kace LeBlanc, kept right

didn’t have to stay and listen to this nonsense. She loved her brothers, but there was no love

document this portion of her life. Being one of the star of Secret Lives of NYC Ex-Wives—New York’s version of

scenario really grated on Sophie’s

from Buck—not the money and not the ranch. Granted, Sophie didn’t need it, either, but damn it, she and her brothers were

and mighty like so many believed. Sure, the reality show portrayed her as a nurturing, loving woman... Sophie didn’t believe that front for a

in her gut, she met Kellan and Vaughn’s

only people she cared about were her brothers. They were a team, they always had been. And she knew they would work together to get this travesty of a will overturned. But right now, she was too furious to think, or to concentrate on what their next steps should be. She just needed to get away from her father’s house, where she’d never been happy and where she’d just had to sit through a new betrayal. Most people would have been remorseful

the bright, sunny day, she slid her sunglasses off her head and onto her face. She needed a break.

a hotbed of gossip, and this latest bombshell her father had dropped on them was bound to be the talk of the town for weeks. Everywhere she went, people would be whispering, speculating. The thought made

would be doing about the scandalous Blackwood inheritance would lead to lots of talk about Miranda, too. If Sophie could uncover anything—a scandal, or a secret, or maybe whatever bit

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