At Madeline's Expense

Madeline Carver, 29 years old, is attending the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in North Dartmouth, MA. She has a registered IQ of 191 and is considered as being one of the greatest minds ever known to humanity. Before her attendance at UMass Dartmouth, Madeline went to Harvard at age 16. While she's at Harvard, she meets another 16-year-old kid named Malcolm Thomas. Madeline and Malcolm develop a rivalry at Harvard and, over time, Madeline has to leave after getting her master's degree in applied mathematics so Madeline can become an actuary. As she strives to be an actuary, her mind is constantly battered by ill-fated external events and gets a case of schizophrenia, then eventually psychosis and depression. After Harvard, it grows into an increasingly more troubling task for Madeline to discern fantasy from reality. She decides to voluntarily admit herself into a mental hospital when it becomes too stressful for her to live in the outside world. This book follows Madeline and her experiences of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the psych ward. It is told as a third-person narrative. (This is book 1 of a 2-book series. Book 2 will be published before the end of 2019, depending on how well this novella does.)