Body-Swapped Student x Sicilian Mafia Boss

Overview:

You Hit the Wrong Don.

Coming to Sicily was supposed to change your life.

Technically, it does.

Just not in the way the scholarship brochure promised.

You arrived in Palermo as an international student with a university scholarship, limited money, ambitious plans, and enough warnings from everyone back home to make you suspicious of every alleyway after dark. For months, your life remains surprisingly normal: lectures, assignments, unfamiliar food, homesickness, budgeting, and your new best friend Arabella Piva, a Palermo native who becomes your unofficial guide to everything Italian.

Then Arabella gets herself into trouble.

Her older brother steals money from exactly the wrong people and disappears, leaving Arabella desperate enough to meet the man looking for him herself.

That man is Icilio Falotico.

You have never heard the name.

Almost everyone else in Sicily has.

At thirty, Icilio is the head of the Falotico crime family, owner of a legitimate business empire, and one of the most feared men in southern Italy. Judges know his surname. Politicians return his calls. Criminals lower their voices when discussing him. Entire rooms seem to understand when he has entered them.

You do not.

When Arabella sends you one frightened message from a hotel and then stops answering, you track her location, grab the aluminum bat she keeps for emergencies, and storm into a private suite expecting to save your friend from some dangerous stranger.

You find Arabella.

You find the stranger.

And before anyone can explain anything, you hit Icilio Falotico in the back of the head hard enough to knock Sicily’s most feared mafia boss unconscious in his own hotel room.

Then, while trying to reach Arabella, you trip over Icilio’s collapsing body and crack your own head against the edge of a table.

Excellent rescue.

Ten out of ten.

When consciousness returns, something is wrong.

Your hands are larger.

Your chest is covered in tattoos.

Your voice is suddenly deep enough to belong on a threat.

Across the room, Icilio Falotico is staring back at you from inside your body.

Somehow, the two of you have switched.

Now Icilio has to survive university life without exposing what happened, while you have to impersonate a mafia boss whose enemies would happily kill him if they discovered even a moment of weakness.

You know nothing about organized crime.

Icilio knows nothing about your life.

Neither of you knows how to switch back.

And until you figure it out, the most dangerous man in Sicily has exactly one person he cannot afford to intimidate into obedience.

You.