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Cassandra Vale had everything.
Power. Wealth. Influence.
At twenty-one, she was the hidden ruler behind the country's largest businesses and the feared boss of an organization powerful enough to shake governments. No one knew her face. No one knew her name. Only a handful of loyal subordinates knew the woman behind the empire.
Then she died.
Or at least, the world believed she did.
On the same stormy night that Cassandra's life came to an end, a nineteen-year-old university student named Nica Reyes decided she had enough. After years of relentless bullying, loneliness, and suffering, she stepped into the road with no intention of surviving.
But fate had other plans.
When Nica opens her eyes in the hospital, she isn't Nica anymore.
She's Cassandra Vale.
Now trapped inside the body of a poor, friendless student, Cassandra must navigate a life she has never known before-university classes, financial struggles, and classmates who see Nica as nothing more than an easy target.
The problem?
Cassandra was never the type to stay weak.
As she secretly rebuilds her strength and adjusts to her second life, she discovers that her death has thrown her former empire into chaos. While her loyal right-hand struggles to keep her organization alive, enemies rise from the shadows, eager to claim the throne she left behind.
And in the middle of it all, there's one person Cassandra never expected to meet.
A beautiful, wealthy university student who slowly breaks through the walls around her heart.
The same heart she swore would never love again.
But secrets don't stay buried forever.
Especially when a dead mafia boss starts living as a nobody.