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Anika Muhammad’s whole life is wrapped up in her battle with paranoid schizophrenia. Shocked to discover her wedding never actually happened, she relapses into a chaotic world of inner turmoil. When she’s institutionalized against her will, she feels devastated and completely alone.

Anika Muhammad wants to believe in love. But her mind won't let her. She's fallen hard for a smooth-talking charmer from her business course—a reformed player who swears he's changed. But Anika's paranoia convinces her he's cheating. Every late text. Every missed call. Every woman who glances his way becomes proof of betrayal that may not even exist. Desperate for peace, she's drawn to an artist whose spiritual world offers something different. Something calmer. But walking away from the man she loves might be the biggest mistake of all.

In 2003, Swiyyah Woodard's world shattered with two words: paranoid schizophrenia. Fresh out of a university with her Psychology degree, she faced the ultimate irony - becoming a patient of the very field she'd studied. The diagnosis that doctors called "the most debilitating mental illness known to man" threatened to define her entire future.