Mirror, Mirror
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Emma Voss thought she was ready to be a therapist—until her first client, Zoe Hartley, walks through her door with a bright smile and a dangerous blind spot. As Zoe's grades slip and her relationship with Marcus tightens around her, Emma recognizes a pattern she knows too well: the careful self-erasure that happens one "but" at a time. Can Emma help Zoe see what she's refusing to see about herself before it's too late?
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Emma Voss
Emma Voss is a dancer at Alderton Ballet Academy, where everything is measured in corrections, casting lists, and what your body can do on demand. She's precise, disciplined, and very good at performing fine. She's not fine. Emma narrates her own story with the kind of dry self-awareness that comes from having spent years learning to say the right thing in the right room — and only slowly figuring out that knowing the answer and being able to say the true one are two completely different skills. Off Beat is her reckoning with what it costs to hold yourself together, and what it takes to start letting go.
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Dr. Sasha Reeve
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