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Take the Lead by Shelley Shepard Gray

Take the Lead: Audiobook

Book 2 of the Dance with Me series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Take the Lead audiobook runs 7.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Tavia Gilbert (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.6listening hrs
Romancestore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Take the Lead at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 7.6 hours, it is shorter than 56% of the 63,227 Romance audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Dance with Me Series

This is book 2. Book 1 runs 7 hours before it; books 1 to 3 run 21.8 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Shall We Dance?7 hrs
2Take the Lead7.6 hrs
3Save the Last Dance7.2 hrs

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Take the Lead is book 2 of Shelley Shepard Gray's Dance with Me series: a 7.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Tavia Gilbert, released November 10, 2020, on the Romance shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.6 hrs
Narrated by
Tavia Gilbert
Released
November 10, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Romance
Series
The Dance with Me Series #2
ISBN
9781982658342

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Take the Lead audiobook?

Take the Lead runs 7.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.

Is the Take the Lead audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Take the Lead?

Take the Lead is narrated by Tavia Gilbert.