Octavia Red‘s life looks flawless from the outside: top of her law class, perfect grades, composed, disciplined, emotionally detached. But beneath the surface sits a deeper, stranger truth—she feels nothing. Nothing in work, study, or life has delivered a shred of happiness or fulfillment. Is she broken? Is there a fix? Dr. Sarcinelli believes there is. All she has to do is sign on the dotted line and let the walls come down: hand herself over completely, surrender her right to say “no.”














