The most dangerous lies are the ones that feel like help.Ivy Stanhope is a dedicated elementary school principal who thinks her marriage just needs a little fine-tuning. When her husband, Nate, suggests couples therapy with the highly recommended Dr. Lena Caldwell, Ivy agrees. Dr. Caldwell's office is warm and inviting, and her insights seem brilliant. But soon, the therapy sessions begin to subtly twist Ivy's reality. Her dedication to her career is reframed as an avoidance of intimacy. Her independence is diagnosed as a pathology.Then Ivy stumbles upon a terrifying pattern: three of Dr. Caldwell's former clients are dead. They were all ruled suicides, and they all left behind notes featuring the exact same six-word phrase Dr. Caldwell is currently planting in Ivy's mind.Nate didn't bring Ivy to therapy to save their marriage. He brought her to "e;Executive Consultation"e;—a clandestine, high-priced service designed to systematically dismantle independent wives into compliant, dependent shells.Trapped in a home that has become a surveillance state and caught in a therapeutic program engineered to break her sanity, Ivy realizes that running will only make her look unstable to the people Dr. Caldwell has already manipulated. To survive, Ivy must do the hardest thing she has ever done: smile, nod, and play the perfect, broken patient. She must use the very sessions designed to destroy her to gather the evidence she needs to take them both down.
