Author Bio

Tina is also a journalist who spent her long career in television and radio news and as one of the first female sports broadcasters in Louisiana. A Breast Cancer Survivor since 2008, Tina donates her proceeds from Elli to help individuals fight the disease. She also features Stories of Hope on her website during the month of October where readers, authors and health care professionals tell their personal stories dealing with cancer. And, Tina is very active at RT Booklovers Convention and elsewhere with Friends Fight Together to bring the message that we are all in this fight against breast cancer together. She loves to write, but she especially loves spending time with readers...sharing laughs, tears and hugs. Learn more about Tina at tinadesalvo.com.
Featured Series | Second Chance Novels

Her life could have been over with her breast cancer diagnosis, but Elli had fought and won. Now she is ready to fight for other women facing the same nightmare, but to do so she is going to need money. And she is going to need it fast.
Fortunately, Elli finds herself with half ownership of a Louisiana plantation. A twisted inheritance has set her up with an interesting future. Unfortunately, Elli no longer believes in planning a future, she just wants to take the money and run.
Ben Bienvenu wants nothing to do with the woman from California who is certain to turn his world upside down. But the conditions of the will that left the property to both of them doesn’t give him much choice. Not if he wants to keep the property that’s been in his family for generations.
A snobby diva rental dog, an impossible will, a nosy Bienvenu family, a distracting Mardi Gras season and a man who thinks he is protecting his son by standing his ground against her… Elli knows that trying to find common ground with this man known as the Cajun Dog Whisperer is going to be an uphill battle.

Charming, sexy lawyer Beau Bienvenu's attraction to the intriguing historian vies with his distrust of her motives. Beau has one simple goal when it comes to the family that rescued him and made him part of their clan…protect them at all costs. He doesn't trust Jewell, nor her reason for taking the lowly job at Sugar Mill Plantation. What is she really up to? Is it possible Jewell and her quirky grandmother are there to try to profit from a Bienvenu family mystery? If so, both women are out of luck.
Jewell and Beau are at odds about almost everything. The only things they agree on are that family is everything…and that their mutual attraction is inconvenient.
Interview with Tina DeSalvo
A note from Tina...
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Tina DeSalvo

Besides writing, releasing and writing some more...I will be getting out to meet readers! My favorite thing. I’ll be attending the outstanding- Coastal Magic Con in Daytona, The Barbara Vey Readers Weekend in Milwaukee, the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in Reno, The Lori Forester Reader & Author Get-Together in Cincinnati and more... Please visit my website to discover the details of my books, book signings and awesome events I’ll be attending!
1. Write. Writers write. Do it!
2. Fill your blank, white pages with black. It doesn’t have to be perfect. You can’t fix what isn’t there.