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The Pool Boy : She’s Not the Victim You Think She Is.
Rebecca Thorne came to the desert to disappear.
A brilliant attorney with a ruined marriage and a restraining order against her obsessive ex-husband, she’s determined to start over in silence and solitude. Her new villa—perched above the endless Arizona sands—is supposed to be her sanctuary.
Then the pool boy arrives.
Lucas Brennan is charming, polite, and far too observant. He says he’s just there to clean the water. But Rebecca knows better than to trust easy smiles. Because someone has found her. Someone is watching. And as her paranoia deepens, she can’t tell whether Lucas is a savior, a spy… or something far worse.
But what Rebecca doesn’t know is that Lucas isn’t who he claims to be.
He’s an undercover agent, sent to investigate the trail of men destroyed in Rebecca’s wake—husbands, lovers, colleagues who all ended up dead, disgraced, or missing. His job is to expose her. His weakness is that he’s starting to believe her.
In the scorching heat of the Sonoran desert, truth evaporates fast.
And when hunter and prey begin to trade places, only one of them will make it out alive.
A brilliant attorney with a ruined marriage and a restraining order against her obsessive ex-husband, she’s determined to start over in silence and solitude. Her new villa—perched above the endless Arizona sands—is supposed to be her sanctuary.
Then the pool boy arrives.
Lucas Brennan is charming, polite, and far too observant. He says he’s just there to clean the water. But Rebecca knows better than to trust easy smiles. Because someone has found her. Someone is watching. And as her paranoia deepens, she can’t tell whether Lucas is a savior, a spy… or something far worse.
But what Rebecca doesn’t know is that Lucas isn’t who he claims to be.
He’s an undercover agent, sent to investigate the trail of men destroyed in Rebecca’s wake—husbands, lovers, colleagues who all ended up dead, disgraced, or missing. His job is to expose her. His weakness is that he’s starting to believe her.
In the scorching heat of the Sonoran desert, truth evaporates fast.
And when hunter and prey begin to trade places, only one of them will make it out alive.
206 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 19, 2025
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November 17, 2025
I chose this from Kindle Unlimited thinking it would be a sexy romp. Then I read the author's forward and I knew I was in for something much different.
This is a dark story, it's about a sociopath on the loose. It is difficult to read at times and made me uncomfortable. There were times my jaw actually dropped and I said "Oh my God" out loud more than once! I would call it a thriller but it's not a typical style. Nothing is tied up neatly in the end.
The only thing keeping me from giving it five stars was the pacing. Things moved really fast between Rebecca and Lucas and it was hard to believe he'd get sucked in so quickly. I wanted more time for a relationship to develop between them so it was more believable. The book is pretty short (right around 200 pages) and I would have liked about 100 more to flesh things out better.
This is a gem on KU and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it. I'll be talking about if for a long time and I highly recommend it.
This is a dark story, it's about a sociopath on the loose. It is difficult to read at times and made me uncomfortable. There were times my jaw actually dropped and I said "Oh my God" out loud more than once! I would call it a thriller but it's not a typical style. Nothing is tied up neatly in the end.
The only thing keeping me from giving it five stars was the pacing. Things moved really fast between Rebecca and Lucas and it was hard to believe he'd get sucked in so quickly. I wanted more time for a relationship to develop between them so it was more believable. The book is pretty short (right around 200 pages) and I would have liked about 100 more to flesh things out better.
This is a gem on KU and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it. I'll be talking about if for a long time and I highly recommend it.
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