The second series of Lewine Cousin Adventure After each of the cousins experience separate attempts on their lives on The 4th of July, their family friend Senator Domingo summons them to California. He informs them that their vacationing grandparents, Wilford and Patricia Lewine have been kidnapped and being held hostage somewhere in the outback of Australia. The three cousins are not only shocked by the news, but are mystified when they hear that the grandparents are accompanied by someone posing as their grandson, Aston, who has been dead for nearly 15 years. The three cousins, Jessica 20, Rhiannon 19 and Madeline 18, travel to the desert near Alice Springs where they learn that an old enemy, who they thought perished in the Amazon jungle, was alive and well. His new goal is to eliminate the entire Lewine clan except for Wilford. The old man is kept alive only because he knows the secrets of the hidden cavern where the Drug cartel had a hidden a large fortune of gold. The three cousins constantly face the danger of death as they attempt to rescue their grandparents and to unlock the identity of the Mystery person posing as the dead grandson. This time their old enemy seems to have the upper hand. W. Thomas Richards is a rare fourth generation Native of Colorado. He served in the Army in the 11th Airborne Artillery. He has two Engineering Degrees from MSU, and is a licensed professional engineer and land surveyor for the State of Colorado. After 36 years, he retired as a division head in a large utility company. He then went to work in the Airline Industry where he retired the second time. He and his wife have traveled the world and have rode camels in the desert; an elephant in the jungle, flown helicopters in the Andes and have experienced more than 70 different countries. He and his late wife have three sons, 10 grandchildren and one great granddaughter.