Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave. 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. Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style.

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America’s feminist Gothic. It is the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, of murder and feasting without end. In the nineteenth century, a vampire arrives from Europe to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city, one that will soon be ravaged by yellow fever. She must adapt, intermingle with humans, and be discreet. In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship with motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites within the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back. With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and written in the vein of feminist Gothic writers like Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, and Carmen Maria Machado, Thirst plays with the boundaries of genre while exploring the limits of female agency, the consuming power of desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.

Mixing business with pleasure is a dangerous game, but for her, he might just risk it all. Nicholas Blackwood As CEO of Blackwood Hotels, control isn’t just a preference, it’s a necessity. I don’t do distractions, and I certainly don’t do relationships. But when a business deal requires me to appear engaged, there’s only one person I trust to help me pull it off: my assistant, Amara Winslow. She’s sharp, professional, and completely off-limits. This arrangement was supposed to be simple, temporary. But the more I’m around her, the harder it is to keep things strictly business. Every moment with her blurs the line between what's real and what's pretend, and I’m not sure how much longer I can resist. Amara Winslow Being Nicholas Blackwood’s assistant means knowing his every move before he makes it. But when he asks me to be his fake fiancée, everything changes. Suddenly, I’m wearing his ring, attending his events, and sharing his space. What starts as a simple arrangement soon spirals into something far more complicated, and the lines between professional and personal blur in ways I never expected. Falling for my boss was never part of the deal, but now I’m not sure I can stop.