Of Laughter & Heartbreak

<p>This is the summer of locked doors fragile rituals and the ghosts that keep count.</p><p></p><p>I'm Stevie Matthews-almost sixteen the kind of girl people whisper about. Bat-shit crazy they say. Maybe they're right. This summer the order cracks. Obsessive thoughts tighten like barbed wire rituals multiply and the only way forward is a hospital stay I never asked for.</p><p></p><p>Behind those doors I meet strangers who feel both broken and familiar each carrying their own secret galaxies of fear and hope. Together we make a kind of map-messy jagged stitched with laughter unraveling with heartbreak.</p><p></p><p>This is the story of how I learn that friendship can be born from accident that healing isn't neat or pretty and that sometimes the bravest thing is to stay.</p><p></p><p>This<em> book</em> is a tender unflinching portrait of adolescence OCD and the fragile alchemy of survival-equal parts bruised and luminous like a diary written in ink and ghost light.</p>