We’ll be serving up a tasty treat at the next Midnight Brew. Author Marta Acosta will be here with her latest release, and sequel to Happy Hour At Casa Dracula, entitled Midnight Brunch!
If you like funny, witty, laugh out loud romances, you’ll want to read Ms. Acosta’s books.
Marta Acosta was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. At six, she learned to read and she liked it so much that she still reads today. She remembers her excitement when she was seven and her father brought home a box of used books. Growing up with three brothers, Marta learned how to throw a ball, how to express an opinion, and how to tell a joke.
She received a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from Stanford University and is a frequent contributor of humor, gardening and design columns to The San Francisco Chronicle and The Contra Costa Newspapers. She’s had too many jobs to recall, none of which she enjoyed as much as writing at home.
Marta lives with her husband, son, and ancient dog. An avid gardener, she likes independent films, funny novels, loud music and lively conversation.
Marta Acosta’s books:
Happy Hour At Casa Dracula
Vampires, Margaritas, Mayhem
What’s a a girl to do when she’s hidden away at the home of snobby vampires and her ex-boyfriend wants to drive a stake through her heart?
Milagro do los Santos can’t find her place in the world or a man to go with it. All the men she meets are like beach reads–fun, but superficial–and she worries that she is only a beach read, too. Then one night, at a book party for her pretentious ex-boyfriend, she meets an oddly attractive man. After she is bitten while kissing him, she falls ill and is squirreled away to his family’s estate to recover. Vampires don’t exist in this day and age, or do they? As Milagro falls in love with a fabulously inappropriate man, she finds herself caught between a family who has accepted her as one of their own and a shady organization that refuses to let the undead live and love in peace.
Midnight Brunch
Flying Demons, Tequila Sunrises, Tabloid Scandals
What’s a girl to do when she discovers she’s the main course on the menu?
Hip, funny Milagro do los Santos thinks she’s finally found love and a home at the California ranch of fabulous Oswald Grant and his urbane relatives, who have a rare genetic disorder that some call vampirism. But Milagro is bewildered when she’s excluded from an ancient and mysterious midnight ceremony whose participants include Oswald’s unfriendly parents, a creepy family elder, and Milagro’s ex-lover, the powerful and decadent Ian Ducharme. What skeletons are the vampires hiding in their designer closets?
When Milagro’s life is threatened by a rogue family member, she flees to the desert to hide. Instead of solitude, she encounters an egomaniacal actor, a partying heiress, a sly tabloid reporter, and a lavish spa full of dark secrets–all of which might help her find a way home.
Midnight Brunch!
“In her second in a series featuring Milagro de Los Santos, an intrepid Latina heroine involved with a family of vampires, Acosta shines…This sexy, sardonic siren is unlike the usual romantic-suspense heroine, and unique and alluring Milagro will continue to amaze readers in Acosta’s terrific new adventure.” BOOKLIST
“Marta Acosta’s new book MIDNIGHT BRUNCH (Pocket) is out and it’s a stitch. Acosta’s feisty heroine Milagro De Los Santos is fabulous, sharp and independent…Definitely a great-by-the-pool pick.” ORLANDO SENTINEL
“For a book that’s ultra-hip and very now, look no further than Marta Acosta’s MIDNIGHT BRUNCH, the sequel to HAPPY HOUR AT CASA DRACULA….Here’s a book that belongs on nightstands in hip downtown apartments everywhere. The delight is in Acosta’s clever, fresh voice, which moves the narrative at a rollicking pace.” BOOKPAGE
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