Told through three interwoven narrative voices, The Second Chance Home for Girls is a story of friendship and freedom, loss and grief. Sixteen-year-old Summer counts the days at the Second Chance Home for Girls, a halfway house for troubled teenage girls, set in the arid landscape of the Texan plains, until she can go home again, until a new girl, Lorilee, shows up and upends Summer's plans. Feared and loathed by most of the Second Chance residents, Lorilee becomes the catalyst for Summer's deep soul-searching and ultimately freedom when violence escalates and catastrophe determines the outcome of her life-and the lives of the others.