Their Double Lives by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Title: Their Double Lives

Author: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Publisher: Scarlet

Release Date: May 20, 2025

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 refuse: 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…

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The whole time, I just wanted the dog to get his surgery!

Kim Valva is a waitress at a posh New Jersey country club. She’s single after her boyfriend walked out. Her only love now is her wonderful dog, Murphy. But Murphy needs expensive surgery, and Kim has no idea how to pay for it. Then she gets a call from “The Stranger,” who offers her money—but in exchange, she must kill a new member at the club. At first, Kim is undecided, but she’ll do anything for Murphy.

When the day arrives, she realizes the target is her high school boyfriend, Tony Fiore. Tony now goes by Anthony Fuller, and he’s rich and well-connected. When Kim sees Tony, she knows she can’t kill him. She decides to return the money The Stranger had given her—when suddenly Anthony’s young fiancée, PJ Walsh, dies instead!

Was there someone else who wanted to kill Tony, and they killed PJ by accident? Or were both of them the intended targets?

The Double Lives turned out to be a pretty twisted novel with revenge at its core. Kim was a likable character, but the best part was that no dog died in this book.

Cliffhanger: No

4/5 Fangs