Dark Companion

American Library Association's YALSA Nominee for 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults "Compelling and romantic: a Jane Eyre for the modern age." -Julie Kagawa, NYT bestselling author of The Iron King "I was so swept away by the Gothic... A spin (a wildly delicious supernatural paranormal spin) on Jane Eyre." -Elizabeth Burns, School Library Journal "A breath of fresh air in a genre marked by creaky gender relations and unchallenged class stratification." -Kirkus Reviews "Acosta's writing is rich and exacting in delivering a beautifully dark gothic." -Alice, Marvels Orphaned at six, small and studious Jane Williams thinks she's finally escaped violence and poverty when she's offered a full scholarship to prestigious Birch Grove Academy for Girls. She's given a cottage of her own and loves her classes and her new friends. She even starts tutoring the headmistress's gorgeous son, Lucien. Things seem too good to be true. They are. The longer she stays, the more Jane comes to suspect that something sinister is going on. Why did the wife of a popular teacher kill herself? What happened to the former scholarship student? Why does Lucien's brother, Jack, seem to dislike her so much? As Jane begins to piece together the truth, she must decide what she would risk to stay at Birch Grove...because even the brightest people make terrible mistakes when they're offered everything they've always desired.