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Double Lives

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Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of Depression-era Southern drama starring identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results—until one risk too many changes the game forever . . .

Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in—and out—of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn't be more different. Outspoken Leona lives to break rules and scandalize their respectable hometown of Lexington. Fiona is a seemingly demure churchgoing girl who is the apple of her domineering, widowed mother Mavis's eye.
But together, the twins have fooled teachers, boyfriends, bosses, racist police—and most importantly, straitlaced Mavis. Their unbreakable bond keeps them fiercely loyal. . . . So when Fiona feels stifled in her passionless marriage, and Leona is heartbroken over losing her one true love, it's perfect timing to change places once again . . .
Leona is shocked to discover she enjoys the security of being a wife and homebody—along with the unexpected spark between her and Fiona's husband. Meanwhile, Fiona is indulging her inner wild-child and Leona's ex-lover becomes one temptation she's having trouble resisting . . .
As the sisters' masquerade ignites desires and appetites they never expected, it also puts their most damning secrets on the line. Once the fallout rocks their small town, can their deep sisterhood shield them from total disaster and help them reconcile their mistakes? Or will it become a weapon that shatters their lives for good?

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      March 1, 2024
      Identical twin sisters Leona and Fiona long ago realized the power of their inseparability. They pledge that they would do anything for one another and begin dabbling in switching places in each other's lives as an occasional prank. But as the girls grow into adolescence and adulthood, they outgrow the childhood fun of their role reversal and begin to use the farce to protect and help each other out of difficult situations. As they struggle to keep their switches secret, the twins' individual troubles lead to dangerous effects on the other, blurring the lines between self and sister. There is no topic too scandalous for Monroe (Love, Honor, Betray, 2023), and her signature gritty storytelling style is on full display here. Double Lives, the fourth book in the Lexington, Alabama, series, features themes of identity, secrecy, and injustice as experienced through the sisters' expectations and disappointments of youth and middle life. Loyal fans of Monroe's mix of provocative characters, illicit romance, and life in a Black community under Jim Crow laws will enjoy this story of domestic duplicity.

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