If…Second Chance explores possibilities and alternate realities as it takes one little word ('if' something had changed) and explores the potentials for quite a different life. 

The protagonist is one Shona, an energetic go-getter who has fallen into a world of depression and suicidal thinking, and who gets a 'second chance' for a new life. 

In this case, her dreams of having her own profitable small business and equally successful marriage (both of which will lead to a perfect life) are spoiled by a confrontation with reality on two fronts: her struggling small business's horrible day and her discovery that the love of her life isn't whom she believed him to be. 

Now what?  If…Second Chance explores Shona's life from this point onward, setting its scenes quickly and then evolving from there. Once again (as in If…Blurred Vision) a psychic plays a role in Shona's transition. Once more the protagonist realizes new possibilities other than the vision and path she's forged for her life's course.

An exceptionally powerful, unexpected ending completes the carefully-penned scenario and lends a delightful touch of angst to the matter of Shona's evolution. Novelette readers will be delighted by the soaring heights and depths of Mae's creation, which is all about second chances won and lost.