Second Time Around [Mass Market Paperback]

"Engaging, charming, heart-warming and intriguing. Tina Wainscott has the right formula for success" -- Romance Communications

"Second Time Around is a well-written, romantic, feel-good story that everyone should read. Readers will definitely want to stay up past their bedtimes for this one!" -- Gothic Journal , 10/97

"Terrific Tina Wainscott provides her readers with a fabulous romantic suspense drama built upon an interesting mix of elements from the supernatural. Sam is a delightful detective, and Jennie (regardless of what skin she wears) is a fabulous lady. Second Time Around is worth reading the first time around, the second time around, and the nth time around. -- Harriet Klausner, Affaire de Coeur, 10/97

"This is absolutely wonderful! "Special" doesn't begin to describe it, it touched me so much. This has to be one of the year's most heartwarming, tender stories. -- Bell, Book and Candle

"This is one great book and I loved it!! Make plans to add it to your library. I know you will be pulled into Sam and Jennie/Maxine's lives just as I was and you won't want to let them go." -- Old Book Barn Gazette, 10/97

I have had a good time with my second chance books (On the Way to Heaven and Shades of Heaven), and this story let me put a whole new twist on the theme. I spent a day in a wheelchair so I could get a better feel for what that kind of life was like. What I came away with was not pity but admiration and appreciation for the particular hardships these people encounter on a daily basis. In interviewing a man who has been wheelchair-bound most of his life for my research, (Rick Feathers also plays a small part in the book) I discovered that being in a wheelchair doesn't mean not being able to enjoy life. It only means you find another way to get around.

"I never got a chance to tell Sam I love him!" These are young Jennie Carmichael's dying thoughts. A tragic accident is ending her life-and she's never told her boss, private eye Sam Magee, how much she loves him. She was too timid-why would dynamic Sam care for his shy, wheelchair-bound assistant?

As Jennie's lifelight fades, an incredible sadness fills her. Then a miracle happens. Jennie awakens to find she has been given a second chance. She's elated-until she discovers she has returned to life in the body of Maxine Lizbon-Sam's detested ex-wife. As Jennie struggles to adjust to a body that can walk, dance and make love-things she only dreamed of from the confines of her wheelchair-she realizes she is in deadly danger. For Maxine Lizbon was murdered, and now her killer is stalking Jennie. And worse, the man who can help the most-private eye Sam Magee-is the one man who least wants too.

Tina Ritter Wainscott has been creating people and stories ever since she can remember. In 1993, Tina's third book won Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award. She went on to sell that book to St. Martin's Press who published it in1995. ON THE WAY TO HEAVEN is a romantic suspense with an unusual twist, and was nominated for two industry awards. SHADES OF HEAVEN followed in October, 1995, a spin-off ON THE WAY TO HEAVEN. DREAMS OF YOU was released in 1996 and was nominated for the prestigious Maggie award. In 1997 SECOND TIME AROUND won the Affaire de Coeur's Reader's Choice Award for best supernatural romance. IN A HEARTBEAT will be released in June, 1999, and explores the mystery of cellular memory and the magical connection between twins.

She credits her talent for writing to God, but owes the romantic inspiration to her husband. Tina lives in Florida with her husband, Dave, Shetland Sheepdog, Phoenix, and kitten, Gypsy. When she is not planted in front of her computer at home, she is reading, doing jigsaw puzzles, walking the beach and dancing (but not all at once!).