<P>A daring memoir of love, magic, adventure, and miracles, Victor Villaseñor's <I>Thirteen Senses</I> continues the exhilarating family saga that began in the widely acclaimed bestseller <I>Rain of Gold,</I> delivering a stunning story of passion, family, and the forgotten mystical senses that stir within us all. <P><I>Thirteen Senses</I> begins with the fiftieth wedding anniversary of the aging former bootlegger Salvador and his elegant wife, Lupe. When asked by a young priest to repeat the sacred ceremonial phrase "to honor and obey," Lupe surprises herself and says. "No, I will not say 'obey'. How dare you! You don't talk to me like this after fifty years of marriage and I now knowing what I know!" After the hilarious shock of Lupe's rejection of the ceremony, the Villaseñor family is forced to examine the love that Lupe and Salvador have shared for so many years -- a universal, gut-honest love that will eventually energize and inspire the couple into old age.</P></I>