Scrapbook Page & #Giveaway – The Rainwater Secret by Monica Shaw @the_rainwater #historicalfiction #TexasAuthor #LSBBT #africa #medicalmissionaries #catholic

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THE RAINWATER SECRET

by

Monica Shaw

Genre: Historical Fiction / Medical Missionaries

Publisher: Self-Published

Date of Publication: March 31, 2017

Number of Pages: 354

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The Rainwater Secret is a deeply moving, historical fiction novel about a woman who travels to Africa to teach the leper children who were banished from their villages. Single and feeling there is nothing left for her in small-town England, Anna embarks on an adventure as a volunteer teacher with the Medical Missionaries of Mary. Life as Anna has known it is forever changed as she learns the culture that would banish its sick, disfigured, and crippled to the bush. Babies are left to die on roadsides, children are chased away to live by whatever means they can find. The aged are abandoned.

Anna’s daily life is an adventure as she travels from one village to another across a hostile land with few passable roads, rickety bridges threatening to fall apart and casting occupants on the jagged rocks far below, and weather that turns a calm river into a roiling death trap. In spite of the trials, Anna also manages to find love and family in this godforsaken land.

Follow this adventure through disease, weather, strife, death, and determination to turn a few acres of land into a loving home for the outcast lepers of Nigeria.

Monica Shaw is a native of Dallas, Texas where she has been a successful entrepreneur. She attended St. Thomas Aquinas, graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School, and earned her Geology / Petroleum Engineering degree from UT Austin. Her debut novel, The Rainwater Secret, started off as a personal research project looking into the life of her great aunt who became a missionary teacher. Monica is married with 3 children.

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8 thoughts on “Scrapbook Page & #Giveaway – The Rainwater Secret by Monica Shaw @the_rainwater #historicalfiction #TexasAuthor #LSBBT #africa #medicalmissionaries #catholic

  1. Heidi

    Great post! Good luck to the people who entered!

  2. Amanda McGill

    Looks like a great read. Thanks for sharing.

  3. Jade

    Sounds like an awesome read. Great post!

  4. Whispering Stories

    Great post. Second time I’ve seen this book today. Great giveaway too.

  5. Fee Kelly

    What a different approach to a tour with the scrapbook idea! Really different and unique. This books sounds good will be sure to check it out.

  6. Gemma

    What a unique post. I love the scrapbook idea.
    Gemma @ Gemma’s Book Nook

  7. Ashleigh

    Great post

  8. DJ Sakata

    I’ve been noticing this one popping up recently – thanx for the info

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