The Idiot's Gambit
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She was supposed to die in Chapter 12.
Aria Voss was a forensic accountant who caught criminals for a living-until she became one herself. Murdered for exposing a corrupt politician, she wakes up in the body of Valentina "Lina" Marchetti: the beautiful, spoiled, and universally stupid daughter of a feared mafia boss.
In the novel she read before dying, Lina doesn't make it past Chapter 12. Crying. In a warehouse. Betrayed by her own family.
But Aria isn't Lina. And being "stupid" has its perks.
No one guards their words around an idiot. No one sees a dumb heiress as a threat. And nobody-not her ruthless half-brother, not her paranoid father, not the bodyguard who watches her every move-expects the stupid daughter to actually be paying attention.
Armed with foreknowledge, a dead girl's diary, and the lowest expectations imaginable, Aria has one goal: survive past Chapter 12.
The problem? The story she read is already changing. And someone in this family knows she's not who she claims to be.
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