Mindful Warfare

What happens when the Ministry's most progressive idea meets its most dangerous prisoner?

Jasiah Mordaunt thought he'd seen it all at St. Mungo's-until his unorthodox methods got him reassigned to the wizarding world's worst job: rehabilitating prisoners in Azkaban. His first patient? Barty Crouch Junior, the man who impersonated Mad-Eye Moody, bewitched the Goblet of Fire, and delivered Harry Potter to Voldemort on a silver platter.

The Ministry calls it rehabilitation. The Aurors call it naive.

Barty calls it a game.

This isn't therapy. This is psychological warfare.

From their first session, Barty makes one thing clear: he knows every trick in the therapeutic playbook. He graduated top of his class. He fooled Albus Dumbledore for ten months. And he won't fall for standard Mind Healer tactics.

But Jasiah has secrets of his own.

Banished from St. Mungo's for reasons he can't afford to reveal, Jasiah doesn't play by the rules. He brings coffee to a prisoner. He proposes a dangerous game: they take turns asking questions, and both must answer truthfully. What unfolds is an electrifying dance of minds-two brilliant, broken men circling each other in a cold stone room, each trying to unravel the other while protecting their own carefully constructed walls.