Dr. Zahra Farmaian survived the fellowship that nearly destroyed her. Now licensed, and still carrying the spreadsheet she built at her kitchen table two years ago, she's handed the case she's been waiting for without knowing it: Solomon Adeyemi, security guard, fifteen years served, Case #7 of the fifty-one convictions traced back to one evaluator's boilerplate language. His sentencing courtroom has a number, not just a name — Department 47 — and Zahra has known that number the way other people know a birthday. The original evaluation took four minutes to matter and fifteen years to undo. Three words, underlined twice in a stranger's handwriting — moves toward threat — became a life sentence's worth of language, read into the record without a single follow-up question. Zahra has the authority now to write the paragraph that undoes it. What she doesn't have is any guarantee that a courtroom which has quietly discarded judges, files, and careers for decades will let a corrected record actually matter. Working against a system built to forget, alongside an appellate attorney with nothing left to lose and a defendant who has spent fifteen years perfecting the art of not hoping for anything, Zahra has to decide what she's willing to spend — her reputation, her friendships, her own certainty — to make one paragraph true in a building that has never once had to answer for the ones that weren't. And when the hearing ends, she learns that fixing one file was never the whole job. It was only the first drawer in a room that has been keeping score far longer than she has. Department 47 is a psychological thriller about institutional memory, the cost of being right, and what happens when the truth finally has enough power behind it to matter — Book Three of the Forensic Truth trilogy.

Dr. Zahra Farmaian has thirty days and twelve sessions to answer one question: is Benyamin Qajar competent to stand trial for a murder that has already convicted him in the press. It should be simple. She's done this before. Ask the questions, run the battery, file the finding, move on to the next case. But Benyamin remembers things about her she never told him — the pen she switched, the perfume she changed, the exact rhythm of the breath she uses to steady herself before a hard question. He's not answering her evaluation. He's conducting one of his own. Then the anomalies start. A recorder that activates itself. Forty-three minutes missing from a session neither of them can account for. Notes in her own handwriting that she has no memory of writing. And underneath all of it, something she has no clinical name for and can't stop returning to — a pull toward the one person in this case she is supposed to remain entirely unmoved by. By the time Zahra understands what she's actually investigating, she's no longer sure if she's the one asking the questions, or the one being answered. And the finding she signs her name to is about to matter to people she hasn't met yet — for reasons that have nothing to do with the law.

The first man who teaches you about love isn't always the one who says he loves you.

Long before your first relationship, your father—or the absence of him—began shaping the way you experience love, trust, safety, and connection.

In Who Taught You How to Love?, author, psychology graduate, and storyteller Coco Farmani takes readers on a deeply personal journey through the lasting influence of the father-daughter relationship. Blending personal stories with research in attachment theory, developmental psychology, trauma, neuroscience, and emotional healing, she explores how our earliest experiences become the blueprint for the relationships we build as adults.

Whether your father was absent, emotionally unavailable, inconsistent, overly critical, or simply unable to meet your emotional needs, this book offers understanding, compassion, and practical insight into how those experiences can shape your self-worth, boundaries, attraction, emotional availability, and capacity to love.

Inside you'll discover:

• What "Daddy Issues" really mean through the lens of psychology

• How attachment theory explains the relationships we choose

• The neuroscience of love, trauma, and emotional healing

• How father presence, absence, and emotional availability influence adult relationships

• Why we repeat unhealthy relationship patterns

• Why we're often drawn to emotionally unavailable partners

• How to recognize and heal the hidden father wound

• Practical reflections to help rebuild self-worth, strengthen boundaries, and create healthier relationships

More than a psychology book, Who Taught You How to Love? is an invitation to better understand your past so you can transform your future.

Because healing doesn't begin when someone finally loves you.

Healing begins when you understand who first taught you what love was.

Perfect for readers interested in attachment theory, relationship psychology, trauma recovery, emotional healing, self-discovery, and personal growth.

By CoCo Farmani, the creator of the Web of Love podcast and the author of the psychological thriller series 12 Sessions: The Forensic Truth, The Osei Letter, and Department 47. Also by CoCo, The Psychology of Men Understanding the Hidden Psychology Behind Love, Attraction, and Relationships.