Daughter of Mine

"After his wife's death, a renowned psychologist (protagonist) secretly seeds his honors students with subliminal experiments to cure mental illness, but when his grief-fueled hubris unleashes phobias, a student’s investigation ignites betrayal, violence, and the collapse of his family and career."

After the sudden death of his wife and the later suicide of his daughter, celebrated psychology professor Arthur Keller retreats into an obsession: a clandestine campus experiment of subliminal multimedia meant to cure mental illness — and to redeem his family. When a perceptive honors student, Dawne, uncovers Keller’s manipulations and confronts the ethics and danger of his methods, classroom paranoia erupts into real-world fear and violence, fracturing relationships and exposing how grief and ambition can warp even the most brilliant minds. Daughter of Mine is a tense psychological thriller set against a small university town, blending academic intrigue and gothic family tragedy into a moral study of responsibility, obsession, and the cost of playing god.