Marta Acosta
MARTA ACOSTA is the author of the award-winning Casa Dracula series. She received degrees in creative writing and literature from Stanford University and was a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Contra Costa Times. Her books have been selected as: Book Sense Pick, Fresh Fiction Fresh Pick, Catalina Magazine Humor
Book of the Year, and BookPage Notable pick. Marta lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
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Dark Companion
- By: Marta Acosta
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 03, 2012
- Language: English
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Jane Eyre meets Twilight in Dark Companion, a lush and romantic YA gothic tale about an orphaned girl who attends an exclusive private school and finds herself torn between the headmistress’s two sons.
Orphaned at the age of six, Jane... Read more
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