Sometimes the hardest person to save is yourself. Six years after surviving a brutal assault, trauma nurse Sally Sinclair has built what looks like a perfect life in Seattle. She's successful, respected, and living with Jackson Smith, the gentle mechanic who sees past her scars. But when panic attacks begin destroying her ability to be intimate, and whiskey becomes her only escape from the nightmares, Sally realizes she's been surviving instead of living. When her concerned friends stage an intervention and Sally hits rock bottom in a hospital parking lot, she's forced to confront a devastating truth: all the love in the world can't heal trauma that she refuses to face. With Jackson's patient support and her chosen family rallying around her, Sally must decide if she has the courage to fight for the life and love she deserves. As she navigates intensive therapy, legal depositions that reopen old wounds, and the terrifying vulnerability of genuine healing, Sally discovers that recovery isn't about becoming who she was before. It's about accepting who she's becoming now: scarred but not broken, wounded but not defeated, and strong enough to help other survivors find their way out of the darkness. A powerful exploration of trauma recovery, the true meaning of strength, and the friends who refuse to let us face our battles alone. "Healing isn't linear, but it's possible. And sometimes the strongest thing you can do is ask someone to save you while you learn to save yourself."