Second-Chance and Regression Novels about Changing the Past

Choosing a story from this list

Foreknowledge is only one part of a second-chance story. The stronger question is what a person will do differently when confronted with the same desire, fear or relationship. These premises connect a return to execution, a damaged career, a coming crisis or betrayal. The individual notes help distinguish the satisfaction of correcting events from the harder work of changing a character.

Ask what the protagonist understands now that they did not understand before. Information may solve a practical problem without resolving the habit or relationship that made it painful.