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A mother lives a double life as an assassin in Jessica Payne's novel Somebody Worth Killing

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of the book, due out next year

Payne tells PEOPLE that writing the novel "felt like magic — like the story I’d been waiting my whole life to tell"

Motherhood meets murder in Jessica Payne’ s latest thriller — and PEOPLE has an exclusive sneak peek.

In Somebody Worth Killing , due out from Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in summer 2026, Nadia Davis lives a seemingly normal life. She has a successful career, a doting husband and two daughters she loves. But Nadia’s family has no idea that she leads a double life, and is actually a hired assassin tasked with offing bad guys.

When Nadia learns that her agency is giving her lo

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