Ryan Dooley is the main character in this novel. He is a 17 year old boy who has gotten himself into trouble in the past, and is now starting to come back to him.

Sometimes Dooley doesn't make the best choices, he decided that it would be a good idea to go against his uncles wishes and go to a party, because of a girl. The party was being held for her brother Mark Everley ( The boy that jumps off the bridge in the beginning of the book). The girls name is Beth, she goes to a private school and Dooley has a huge crush on her, but Beth believes that Dooley had something to do with the death of her brother. At this party that he goes to he starts to drink, he has a couple glasses of champagne and he feels a little bit drunk. Dooley who used to be a border line alchoholic was very shocked at how much of a "lightweight" he was. Dooley puts his drink down for a only a moment when someone drugs his drink. The drug was eventually found to be ruffies (the date rape drug) and Dooley woke up in a hospital bed with his uncle staring at him. It turns out that someone that while Dooley was under the influence of ruffies he started a fight with a kid named Edward Gillette, and the kid turned up dead, there had also been a robbery at an electionics store.


If you were in a similar situation would you try to figure out what really happen or would you leave it and hopefully get lucky in court?