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Jennifer Jareau is admitted to Havenwood Psychiatric Hospital after a collapse under the weight of long-standing depression and persistent suicidal thoughts. She is quiet, exhausted, and certain she’s nothing anyone needs. Emily Prentiss is everything JJ is not: reckless, fiercely alive, and magnetic — a spark in JJ’s grey world. Their pull is immediate and complicated, and as their bond deepens, JJ’s fragile hold on herself slips into a suicide attempt that forces the ward — and both women — to reckon with what care, boundaries, and love truly mean. Recovery is messy, slow, and ongoing; survival sometimes looks like small kindnesses and hard limits, not dramatic rescues.
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