psychological fiction

A single father, enraged after hearing his fourteen-year-old daughter may have been taken advantage of at a party, attacks an innocent high school boy, costing the boy an eye, and finds himself facing charges that could cost him his children.

When his brief romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, Dr. Jeremy Carrier is emotionally devastated and vows to find the man who killed her and bring him to justice.

High school senior Quentin Coldwater's real world never quite measures up to Fillory, the enchanted land in his favorite fantasy novels, and even an education at the mysterious Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy leaves him without purpose, but when he discovers a way into Fillory, his life becomes a dangerous adventure.