Kim needs money to save her dog Murphy. Someone seems to know and offer her exactly enough cash. But what’s the catch? Not much, just kill a man at the country club where she is a waitress. This person, this stranger, even provides the poison. Just add it to his food and Murphy will live. Easy right? What would you do?
Only this man, a newcomer to the club is not a stranger to Kim. She knew him very well years ago and knows she cannot do this. But when his fiancée PJ, dies, Kim is at a loss to figure out what is going on. Were Anthony and PJ both supposed to die? Was there someone else tasked with poisoning PJ? But who and why. And how is Kim going to save Murphy now.
Kim, PJ, and Anthony exposed the secrets and lies behind Their Double Lives.I could not turn my Kindle pages fast enough. I had to know who would kill PJ in such a brutal way. There were a couple of other people that I hoped would get what they deserved too. Honestly am I wrong to say Murphy was the only one I kept my fingers crossed for the whole time.
This book publishes in May and it would make such a good beach read. All the stars.

Kim’s life could not be going worse. She’s recently single after her then-boyfriend knocked up another woman, she’s underemployed as a waitress at a snooty country club, and her beloved dog Murphy will die without a very expensive surgery that Kim can’t afford. That is, until a mysterious stranger approaches her with a very simple task: slip a poison pill into the drink of a new member at the country club, and she’ll be handsomely compensated. Kim’s not a murderer, but she really needs the money to save Murphy. But on the night she’s supposed to do the job, Kim is shocked to see that the target, Anthony Fuller, is none other than her high school boyfriend Tony Fiore. She can’t bring herself to go through with poisoning him, but someone is still going to die anyway.

Hot damn! I’m calling it official: Jaime Lynn Hendricks is a queen of the juicy popcorn thriller! She’s back with another five-star wild ride, and this makes her third five-star book in a row for me! This is one of my most-anticipated thrillers for the first half of 2025 and I dropped everything as soon as I got my hot little hands on an ARC. I then proceeded to stay up until 2:30 in the morning devouring chapter after chapter, because once I picked this one up, there was no way I could stop reading, it’s just that good! JLH’s dialogue is so snappy and snarky, and I was hooked the entire time. This book has got it all: multiple POVs, dual timelines, and wall-to-wall secrets, lies, and betrayals. A super entertaining, bingeable read!

Jaime Lynn Hendricks does it again!!!!!!

Their Double Lives! The twists, humor and even emotions this books sparks… Perfection! Whose side are you on? It keeps switching!

"𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞...𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐠, 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤...𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐟*𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬, 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫?"

Kim's life is a disaster. The man she thought she would marry cheated on her and she has to supplement her income by waitressing at an elite New Jersey country club. But Kim is facing something even worse than serving overpriced cocktails to demanding Botoxed clients--her beloved dog is on borrowed time, in desperate need of a life-saving surgery.

A nondescript envelope arrives at her apartment with her name on it. Inside, cryptic instructions tell her to put a substance in a new member's drink that night, and she'll be handsomely rewarded. She weighs the life of her beloved dog vs. the life of a stranger. The dog wins.

However, when Kim shows up at her at her shift, to her shock and horror, she realizes she knows the target--it's her ex-boyfriend Tony from high school with quite the checkered past, who has reinvented himself, made millions, and has a gorgeous fiancee named PJ on his arm. Realizing she can't go through with it and panicked over losing the money to save her dog, she doesn't have time to consider her next move because PJ suffers a violent death at the dinner table in front on stunned onlookers and waitstaff.

Don't read the whole synopsis of this book! I rarely go in blind, but I'll read anything this author writes and trust that I'm going to be entertained. I didn't know the motivation of one character in particular, and that made the book so much more thrilling to me. Filled with betrayal, deception, and with her snarky brand of humor (looking at you, Carla!) THEIR DOUBLE LIVES is going to be one of the top thrillers of 2025. Thank you so much to the author and Thriller Book Lovers: The Pulse for my review copy. This book is scheduled to release on May 20, 2025.