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.

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 giving everything to an ex

to this nonsense. She loved her brothers, but there

was surprised her narcissistic step-monster didn’t have a whole camera crew here to document this portion of her life. Being one of the star of Secret Lives of NYC Ex-Wives—New York’s version of The Real Housewives—seemed to rule Miranda’s life. The woman always had a crew following her, documenting every aspect of her glittery, flashy

whole scenario really grated on

need all of this other stuff from Buck—not the money and not the ranch. Granted, Sophie didn’t need it, either, but damn it, she and her brothers were blood relations. Weren’t

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

the growing pit of anger in her gut, she met Kellan and Vaughn’s furious stares as she exited the study of her father’s

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

out into the bright, sunny day, she slid her sunglasses off her head and onto her face. She needed a break. She just wanted an escape even

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,

would be doing about the scandalous Blackwood inheritance would lead to lots of talk about Miranda, too. If Sophie could uncover

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