River Dean has a good heart, but gets his life in Los Angeles turned upside down when his long-time high school girlfriend Penny dumps him. River has been so content existing in the perfect “Penny-bubble” that once it’s popped, he doesn’t know where to go. He literally doesn’t know where to go because she has been driving him everywhere.One afternoon, as he walks through the gritty streets of LA he finds himself outside a place advertising “A Second Chance,” a therapy group for teenagers with addictions. River invents his own addiction to fit in and soon finds himself caught up in a touching and hilarious sequence of lies and subterfuges that really do turn his life upside down.When he finds himself falling for one of the girls in the group a delightful comedy of errors ensues in this irresistable book about a charmingly flawed hero.