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.

that their father’s lawyer, Kace LeBlanc, kept right on reading from, listing

listen to this nonsense. She loved her brothers, but there was no love between her and

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

grated

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

nobody see the vindictive woman Miranda truly was? There had to be a way to prove she wasn’t all high and mighty like so

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

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

Sophie made her way 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 if for just

father had dropped on them was bound to

Blackwood inheritance would lead to lots of talk about Miranda, too. If Sophie could uncover anything—a

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