The Change Game: A Novel About How to Deal With Difficult People

What happens when you change the rules about dealing with difficult people?

Marcus Winters has always been a master at keeping the peace—accommodating his narcissistic wife Vanessa's emotional needs and navigating his brilliant but difficult product development team at work. He creates systems, follows rules, and does whatever it takes to maintain harmony. But beneath his calm exterior, Marcus is drowning.

Enter Dr. Valerie Mercer, "The Difficult Person Whisperer." Armed with unconventional wisdom and strange symbolic objects, she teaches Marcus five transformative principles that challenge everything he thought he knew about difficult relationships.

As Marcus begins to stand his ground, Vanessa and his team escalate their resistance through increasingly manipulative tactics. Just when small breakthroughs emerge, crisis strikes, forcing Marcus to choose between managing his wife's manufactured meltdown and salvaging his career during the most important business dinner of his life.

Faced with devastating ultimatums from Vanessa and his boss, Marcus must decide whether maintaining his newfound boundaries is worth losing everything he's worked for. What follows isn't about winning or losing but discovering that sometimes the most courageous move is changing how you play.

Quinn Price masterfully blends workplace drama with relationship psychology, creating a story about transformation and the courage to live by rules that actually work. Perfect for fans of Brené Brown and Liane Moriarty.

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Release date

Audiobook: March 29, 2025