Reign (American Royals #4)

by Katharine McGee

Daphne had never lived anywhere but here—in Washington, the city of energy and ambition, a city fueled by millions of people all chasing their own wants.

Here in Texas we’d rather you be frank. We don’t have the patience for oblique messages and dropped hints.”

“It’s a long story,” Beatrice said evasively, but Louise wasn’t deterred. “Why do you think I brought wine? I want to hear the story in all its detail.”

It was so rare, in modern life, that you got to speak like this to people: with the brutal, unvarnished truth. Even with friends, so many conversations splashed playfully at the surface, stuck to safe topics like academics and mutual acquaintances.