An account of a Dartmouth student's experiences pledging Sigma Alpha Epsilon and how his promising college life soon became a dangerous cycle of binge drinking and public humiliation.

"It was 2009 when T. McKinley's brother committed suicide, and McKinley was brought face-to-face with his own lifelone struggle with depression and shame. In this moving and poignant memoir, McKinley revisits the events that made him who he is -- from the divorce and fragmentation of his family as a child to his own struggles as a husband and father when he realized he was repeating the same toxic patterns. But with the restoration of a broken-down house, McKinley realized that he still had the capacity to open himself to hope" -- Publisher's description.

Originally published: San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, 2006.

Book 4 of the Auralia Thread series The king is missing. His people are trapped as the woods turn deadly. Underground, the boy called Rescue has found an escape. Hopes are failing across The Expanse. The forests, once beautiful, are now haunted and bloodthirsty. House Abascar's persecuted people risk their lives to journey through those predatory trees. They seek a mythic city - Abascar's last, best hope for refuge - where they might find the source of Auralia's colors. They journey without their king. During a calamitous attempt to rescue some of his subjects from slavery, Cal-raven vanished. But his helper, the ale boy, falling through a crack in the earth, has discovered a slender thread of hope in the dark. He will dare to lead a desperate company up the secret river. Meanwhile, with a dragon's help, the wandering mage Scharr ben Fray is uncovering history's biggest lie - a deception that only a miracle can repair. Time is running out for all those entangled in The Auralia Thread. But hope and miracles flicker wherever Auralia’s colors are found.