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. What’s a girl to do when “la familia” calls? To do so, she has to recruit help from her hated ex-fiance.

After all, her stern grandmother tells her, she is the “smart one” in the family. The old dichos in Spanish originated with my grandmother and other Spanish-speaking friends.Ī 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. –I plumbed my childhood experiences with my Hispanic family and Mexican friends to come up with the story and the sometimes comical characters. Tell us something about your newest release that is NOT in the blurb. If you love to write, it won’t seem like hard work because it’s a labor of love, as the old Bard said. It takes tenacity and a lot of hard work. What advice would you give a new writer just starting out? I turned serious when I retired from teaching, and was published almost immediately. However, thanks to this Covid virus, I’m not traveling as much as I was two years ago. I retired from teaching high school and community college 20 years ago, so no, not much has changed. Is your life anything like it was two years ago? No, I’m old school and I try to protect my skin. This labor of love was her way of immersing herself in a culture that has always influenced her.Do you have any tattoos? Where? When did you get it/them? Where are they on your body? Being an amateur sleuth is no picnic, but what’s a girl to do when “la familia” calls? ~~~ĭonna Del Oro is a bilingual, bicultural retired teacher who loves her Hispanic heritage.

To do so, she has to recruit help from her hated ex-fiance, her quirky brother-in-law and a Hispanic DEA agent.

After all, her stern grandmother tells her, she is the “smart one” in the family.The mission involvesĬonvincing the DEA that her cousin and her cousin’s child will be killed by the new leader of this dangerous drug cartel if they are not rescued.Īnother obstacle: Dina must contact her cousin and arrange a clandestine pick-up site in a Mexican-Texas border town. A romantic suspense comedy set in Silicon Valley, San Antonio, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico– a young Latina elementary school teacher, Dina Salazar, is asked by her Mexican-born grandmother to rescue her cousins from a dangerous Mexican drug cartel.

Saving La Familia by Donna Del Oro