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Callie Strong was the architect of order in the chaotic world of Atlanta’s high-stakes corporate litigation. As a lead paralegal for a firm that handled "unwinnable" cases, she was the one who could find the needle in a haystack of digital discovery and turn a stray email into a settlement-winning smoking gun. Raised by a single mother who worked three jobs, Callie learned early that being "Strong" meant being the most prepared person in the room. By twenty-seven, she had built a life of sleek minimalism in a Midtown high-rise, her reputation for clinical efficiency making her the person partners called when a case—or a reputation—was on the verge of total collapse. However, Callie is currently drowning in a silent battle with obsessive-compulsive checking that has turned her apartment into a labyrinth of ritual. After a minor clerical error in a filing nearly cost a client millions, her brain flipped a switch it refuses to flip back. Now, leaving her home for the office is a forty-minute ordeal of photographing her stove, her iron, and her door locks to prove to her racing mind that her world won't burn down while she’s gone. This "issue" is a jagged secret she hides behind expensive blazers and a sharp tongue, terrified that if her colleagues see her hands tremble while she double-checks a staple, the persona she worked a lifetime to build will shatter. The cracks are widening as her personal life becomes a casualty of her need for absolute certainty. She recently ended a promising relationship because she couldn't explain why she needed to drive back to the restaurant three times to ensure she hadn't dropped her ID. Now, Callie stands at a crossroads, realizing that the very attention to detail that made her a star is now the cage keeping her from living. She has started attending a support group in a quiet corner of Decatur, sitting in the back row and struggling to reconcile the powerful "fixer" the world sees with the woman who is currently afraid of herself.