A young boy commits suicide. The town folk believe it was another result of bullying but two brothers discover the truth and decide to take matters into their own hands. (Warning: This novel contains material about sexual abuse of children and domestic physical abuse. Although there is no graphic content some may still find the content disturbing).

The dare was simple. Spend twenty four hours alone at the bottom of an abandoned well deep in the forest beyond the outskirts of town. But things do not go as planned. Vincent's friends fail to retrieve him from the bottom at the agreed time and the sun sets for a second night. Sequestered in the darkness far beneath the ground, Vincent Pattison has many hours to reflect on his short life; how his mother ditched him at the age of ten on to his grandparents, how his Grams' illness has worsened since he rushed off to college, and how his elderly Gramps seemed burdened taking care of his Grams...