She’s the smart one….. Saving La Familia by Donna Del Oro

Posted: March 3, 2022 in Contemporary Romance, giveaways, suspense
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Welcome to my stop on the virtual book tour for Saving La Familia organized by Goddess Fish Promotions.

Author Donna Del Oro will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B&N Gift Card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Don’t forget to enter!

And you can click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.

Saving La Familia

by Donna Del Oro

GENRE: Contemporary Romantic Suspense

Synopsis

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”!

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Enjoy this peek inside:

It took five years—six, counting my teaching credential— to work my way through college and, oh yeah, I lost my fiancé along the way—according to Mama and Abuelita, my only chance at happiness. Their idea of happiness meant you married young, spent the next twenty years changing diapers, cooking and cleaning for a man you seldom saw because he was working two or three jobs to pay for all the mouths you’d brought into the world…

¡Gracias a Dios!

Horrors, in my opinion.

That was the world they knew, anyway, and they didn’t have the imagination to picture me in another, I suppose. I had another vision of the world. And myself. After all, I was Dina Salazar, not Dolores—the rambunctious little girl I used to be, saddled with what I thought to be a horrible name and all it implied. I was certain my family considered me the smirky smartass, the brazen wise-ass. No matter what, I was going to scratch and crawl my way into the American middle class, and if I lost whatever family status I had or whatever love came along, so be it.

After all, according to them, I had una cabeza dura. Hard- headed. And they were right.

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Author Donna Del Oro

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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Comments
  1. Mary Preston says:

    The synopsis tells me I will enjoy this.

  2. Rita Wray says:

    Sounds like a good book.

  3. Anne says:

    A captivating and memorable story.

  4. Sue Galuska says:

    This sounds entertaining! Fun cover.

  5. bn100 says:

    nice cover

  6. I hope you all will enjoy my story–truly a labor of love!–author Donna Del Oro

  7. Thank you for sharing, this looks great

  8. Dianne Casey says:

    Sounds like a great read. Looking forward to reading the book.

  9. Nancy P says:

    Lovely cover

  10. Debbie P says:

    This sounds like a great read.

  11. Glenda M says:

    Thanks for the excerpt!

  12. Eva Millien says:

    I enjoyed peeking inside Saving La Familia and I think this book sounds like a great book for me to read! Thanks for sharing it with me and have a sunshiny day!

  13. Veronica Lee says:

    Captivating excerpt! Love the cover too.

  14. Denise Duvall says:

    Beautiful country on the cover. I think this would make a great movie!

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