Second Chance (Paperback)

Marcus had everything — and lost it one small decision at a time. A wife he'd loved since nineteen. Two kids. A warehouse job. Then a back injury, a bottle of oxycodone, and the long slide — until the pills cost him his marriage, his job, his home, and nearly his life. Told in Marcus's unsparing voice, with Elena's chapters as she rebuilds for the kids, Second Chance follows the full arc: the lies, the morning she left with two suitcases, the February night in a tent behind the grocery store, and the hand that reached him in the dark. Through a sponsor's 7 a.m. calls, a counselor who won't accept self-pity, and 43 names on an amends list, Marcus claws his way toward a life worth living. Honest about addiction without glamorizing it — and truthful about the ending