Under the Aurora

by Greg McLaughlin

After twelve lonely years of homelessness, despondent 50-year-old Cliff DeBainer finds himself perched atop the infamous Seattle Aurora Bridge, also known as "America's Suicide Bridge". The pain of his failed career and subsequent mental breakdown, the wife he left, the six year old daughter - now a woman - he abandoned more than a decade ago, and the voices that fill his head, all push him to jump over the edge to his death. But Cliff's miraculous survival sets a chain of transformative ambition that propels him on an impossible journey to escape the bounds of homelessness and rebuild a productive life. As if straightening out twelve lost years isn't hard enough, when Cliff witnesses a horrific human trafficking crime, he finds himself hounded by dirty, abusive local police, caught up with deadly rival gangs dealing in drugs and captive young girls and increasingly struggling with his own mental illness during his battle to regain control of his life and return to the daughter he abandoned so long ago.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1651547653
• ISBN13: 9781651547656
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"