Rules for Second Chances

Maggie North

Jun 2024 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Gail Shalan

About this audiobook

Brimming with heart and heat, Rules for Second Chances explores the hardest relationship question of all: can true love happen twice...with the same person?

Liz Lewis has tried everything to be what people want. But she’s always been labeled different from everyone else in the boisterous world of wilderness expeditions—that is, if anyone notices her at all. Her marriage to popular adventure guide Tobin Renner-Lewis is a sinkhole of toxic positivity where she’s the only one saying no. In a mountain resort town built around excitement, introverted Liz gets...spreadsheets.

When she gets mistaken for a server at her own thirtieth birthday party and her last line of communication with Tobin finally snaps, Liz vows to stop playing a minor character in her own life. The (incredibly well-researched and scientific) plan? A crash course in confidence...via improv comedy class.

The catch? She’s terrible at it, and the only person willing to practice with her is a certain extroverted wilderness guide who seems dead set on saving their marriage one bonkers improv scenario at a time. But as Liz and Tobin get closer (...again), she’s forced to confront all the reasons they didn’t work the first time, along with her growing suspicion that there might be more to her social awkwardness than anyone realized. Liz has just eight weeks to learn improv’s most important lesson—"yes, and"—or she’ll have to choose between the love she always wanted and the dreams that got away.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Ratings and reviews

I listened to the audio version of this book narrated by Gail Shalan. I had issues with the narration because the difference in volumes. She spoke very softly at times to where I couldn't hear what she was saying at all. At times she would yell. I was constantly adjusting the volume until I got to the point that I just gave up on hearing the soft parts. The story was a second chance trope, which I love. I loved Tobin wanting a second chance with his wife. He was a super sweet guy. Liz is kind of a mess, but then you find out why. The concept of her trying to do improv as a way to further her career was kind of strange to me. I think if some of that had been removed from the book and more emphasis had been put on the marriage it may have been more appealing to me. Thanks to Macmillan Audio for this audiobook. All thoughts are my own.

About the author

MAGGIE NORTH lives in Ottawa, Canada with the man she met in ninth grade, their kid, and a rotating cast of hypoallergenic aquarium friends. Her hobbies include long-distance open water swimming, saving the world, and being relentlessly Canadian. She enjoys being autistic a lot more since she received her diagnosis as an adult. Rules for Second Chances is her first novel.