An Evening with M L Rio

Join us for an evening with beloved M L Rio, author of If We Were Villains, to talk about her next literary endeavour Graveyard Shift. This atmospheric and eerie tale is a modern Gothic masterpiece told in Rio's inimitable style.

Every night, in the college's ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.

One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn't there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?

Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks--and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.

M. L. Rio is the author of international bestseller and BookTok sensation If We Were Villains. Her research explores representations of madness and mood disorder on the early modern stage. She lives in Washington, D. C. with too many books, too many records, and a mutt called Marlowe.