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Not many kids dream of being a therapist. Most don't know it's even a job. But for Emerson Jenkins, it was all she'd wanted to be. Her mother was a renowned child psychologist, and she'd always inspired Emerson. Now she wanted to take after her mother, helping children who had issues like she did.

The only college that made sense to Emerson was Essex. Her mother had gone there and they had one of the best psych programs in the country. Emerson found herself lost, though she didn't know why. Until she met Leighton. Who thought the internally homophobic blonde with mommy issues would break Emerson out of her slump?