Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway ~ SAVING LA FAMILIA by Donna Del Oro

Saving La Familia (La Familia, #1)
by: Donna Del Oro
Series: La Familia
Genre: Contemporary Romantic Suspense
Release Date: January 8, 2022
Publisher: Extasy Books Inc.
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A romantic suspense comedy set in Silicon Valley, a young Latina teacher, Dina Salazar, is asked by her Mexican-born grandmother to rescue her cousins from a dangerous Mexican drug cartel. After all, her stern grandmother tells her, she is the “smart one” in the family. To do so, she has to recruit help from her hated ex-fiance. What’s a girl to do when “la familia” calls?

SAVING LA FAMILIA by Donna Del Oro, about a latina teacher who's recruited by her Mexican-born grandmother to save her cousins from a dangerous Mexican drug cartel. It's a romantic-suspense comedy with many "buen dichos"!

Background of SAVING LA FAMILIA:

Being bicultural/bilingual, I relied on my childhood memories and experiences with fellow latinos in Silicon Valley to bring alive some of the characters in my novel. My oldest and dearest friend, Connie Villalobos, became the model for Dina Salazar’s sweet beautician sister. My Hispanic grandmother, strong and wise, became the model for Dina’s Mexican-born grandmother, who recruits her to help her cousins trapped in Mexico and hiding from a dangerous drug cartel “padron.” The wry, humorous “dichos” at the beginning of each chapter come from the grandmother and Hispanic culture in general. I feel very privileged to have been raised in a bicultural/bilingual family and am blessed to have close cousins that remind me constantly of that unique heritage.

Grandma Gómez—”Life is like an artichoke. It takes a lot of peeling to get to the heart of things.”

How did I, in three short months, get to the heart of my Mexican-American family? It wasn’t easy, believe me. Especially since I was the family’s desgraciada. The disgraced one. Ever since I turned eighteen and had my legal name changed from Dolores—which means aches and pains in Spanish—to Dina. My namesake, Grandma Dolores Gómez, refused to speak to me or acknowledge my existence for about a year after the name change. Before that, I was simply the family brat and rebel. The know-it-all.

But you see, Grandma was the heart of the matter. And the big, dark secrets she kept closed up in her heart all got ex- posed in those tumultuous months. And before I could blink and realize what was happening, I was roped into a scheme to rescue cousins I never knew I had out of the deadly clutches of a Mexican drug cartel. Why was I chosen, you ask? Me, Dina Salazar, the desgraciada? A single schoolteacher with a long line of loser-boyfriends? How did I end up looking up the barrel of a cartel commando’s automatic weapon? Come along with me and I’ll tell you.

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Donna Del Oro lives in Northern California with her husband and three cats. She taught high school and community college English classes for 30+ years and is now happily retired. When not doing research, writing novels, or reading voraciously, she travels and sings with the medal winning Sacramento Valley Chorus.

Donna is a member of Capitol Crimes, the Sacramento chapter of Sisters in Crime in addition to the Valleyrose chapter of the RWA. She has judged RITA entries and does developmental editing on the side. Two of her novels, Operation Familia and Born To Sing, have won national and international awards.

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