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

to this nonsense. She loved her brothers, but there was

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

whole scenario really grated

all of this other stuff from Buck—not the money and not the ranch. Granted, Sophie didn’t need it, either, but

way to prove she wasn’t all high and mighty like so many believed. Sure, the reality show portrayed her as a nurturing, loving

growing pit of anger in her gut, she met Kellan and

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

she slid her sunglasses off her head and onto her face. She needed a break. She just wanted an escape even if

and this latest bombshell her father had dropped on them was bound to

right, 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

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