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High society. Higher stakes. This is the 3rd episode in the first season of False Idols, an 11-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Diana Renn. In an attempt to ramp up her investigation, Layla starts working as a translator at the Rothkopf Gallery. It’s the perfect opportunity to spy on her targets—and spend time with the adorable James. But the further her relationship with James develops, the less she wants to believe his father is up to anything shady. And the further she gets into her investigation, the more unlikely that seems. Layla el-Deeb left Egypt for good eleven years ago, after a childhood spent in Cairo’s slums. Now she’s a language expert for the FBI...and she’s right back where she started, in Cairo, investigating a terrorist organization that’s funding its activities through fraudulent art sales. But this isn’t the Cairo she knew. She’s landed right in the middle of the city’s glittering elite, whose dealings in the art world may be the key to infiltrating the terrorist network. Undercover in the place she was born, trying to fit in with the city’s high rollers, Layla is a stranger in every way—even to herself.