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Publisher: Scarlet Suspense
Published: May 20, 2025
Summary:
Living a double life always comes with a cost.
A down-on-her-luck waitress at a posh New Jersey country club, Kim Valva couldn’t be living a more different life from the carefree socialites she serves. Her live-in boyfriend recently cheated on her, her social life is in shambles, and her dog needs a life-saving surgery that she can’t afford. Then her luck seems to change when a mysterious figure identifying themself only as The Stranger contacts her with an offer she can’t Put a pill in the new member’s drink and, when he dies, she’ll have enough money to fix her dog and her life.
Her target turns out to be Tony Fiore—Kim’s bad boy ex-boyfriend from high school. Fifteen years have passed, and he now goes by Anthony Fuller. He’s cleaned up, made tens of millions, and his gorgeous fiancée, twenty-two-year-old PJ Walsh, is on his arm.
PJ had her own agenda from the second she met Anthony. Find him, trick him, marry him, kill him. It was supposed to be easy, but she finds that while living her double life, the lines blur between who she is and who she’s pretending to be.
Stunned to see Tony again, Kim can’t bring herself to go through with spiking his drink. Instead, it is PJ who dies horrifically at the table just as dinner ends. Was someone else at the club—member or worker—tasked with poisoning PJ just as she had been instructed to do to Tony? Who would want both of them dead? With no one to trust and The Stranger to answer to, Kim must peel back the layers of deceit to reveal a deeply buried truth, more shocking than she could ever imagine…
My thoughts:
We over at The Pulse – @thrillerbookloversthepulse – are HUGE fans of Jaime Lynn Hendricks & were thrilled to get early access to her latest book…& let me just say – you are going to want this one when it hits shelves in May!!!
There is something so addictive & thrilling about the way Hendricks crafts her stories. Once you start reading them, you cannot put them down. This is the 3rd book I’ve read of hers & the 3rd one I’ve devoured…& this isn’t now my new favorite!
A story of deception, revenge, lies & manipulation, this book grabbed me from the get-go & didn’t let up. With multiple POVs & timelines, I found myself so invested in all the characters we meet, wondering just who I could really trust & who was using who. This is one book where the less you know going in, the better!
Do you ever get really excited when the pieces start falling into place when you’re reading a book? That’s how I felt with this one…it’s cuckoo bananas at times, with how twisted it becomes, yet I loved every second of it & every time I thought I worked it out, something new was revealed to shake things up just enough to really test me. You may think you have this one all figured out…but trust me when I say, nothing is as it seems.
I loved this one & don’t want to say more for fear of spoiling anything. Preorder it, get your name on the list at your library…just don’t miss it!
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