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LINDA RAINWATER (nee Gaulding) was born in Anniston, Alabama. She was a “closet writer” for much of her life while putting her love for books and learning out in the open. She taught at Oxford High School, Jacksonville State University and Auburn University, where she earned her Ph.D. A natural progression was to impart her love for literature to others. As a professor of English for seventeen years, she taught everything from grammar to Shakespeare. Leaving that profession, she traveled and gathered words and experiences needed for her next life, as a writer. THE SECOND "MILAGRO" is her first novel. It grew out of her travels in Mexico and her intrigue with the Mexican culture. She has two other novels in the works, THE DREAM CHANGED and FRAMING THE TRUTH. Linda now lives in Virginia with her husband, Ray. She has two sons, Jason and Joey Thrower and five grandsons. Plus there are four children she calls her own, since marrying their father, whom she calls her Knight in Shining Armor. The Mount Vernon Writers' group has contributed to keeping her pen working while her cat keeps her company, making writing, she says, her best life yet.

The Second Milagro is a suspense tale of kidnapping, corporate espionage, and forgotten love that takes the reader from the red, dirt roads of Alabama to the silver mines of Mexico. A deadly mine cave-in at Real de Catorce, Mexico, changes Patricia Morelos’s life forever. The disaster she faces as owner of the mine is overshadowed by personal tragedy. Her only child, seventeen-year-old Max, is kidnapped when he goes to help the victims. A spirited woman with a dark Southern past, Patricia leaves her place of power and wealth in Washington, D.C. and goes to Mexico, in the company of her intrepid blind friend, Rachel Davis. There, Patricia becomes the target of corrupt officials, such as Juan Catera, the “garbage czar,” who are trying to take control of her mines. Desperate to reach her son who is somewhere in the San Luiz Potosi mountains, Patricia turns to her late husband's step-brother, Miguel Ramirez, whom she once loved, but now fears and distrusts. With Miguel, Patricia sets out on her journey of discovery, danger and confession. Pursued, shot at, conspired against, and abetted by her blind friend and a lost love, Patricia confronts the secrets of her past along her treacherous journey and finds not one miracle, but two.

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