Graveyard Shift

From the bestselling author of If We Were Villains comes a haunting new tale about five strangers bound by the night shift—and the secrets buried in a college graveyard.

Each evening in the campus’s ancient cemetery, their paths cross: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, a weary church steward, and the relentless editor of the student paper. They share little in common—until one October night they discover an open grave where none should exist.

Before they can make sense of it, the gravedigger returns. Following him through the darkness, they stumble into a mystery that reaches far beyond the cemetery gates, entwined with the town’s recent string of chilling events.

Atmospheric, unsettling, and steeped in M. L. Rio’s signature academic gothic, Graveyard Shift is a story of unlikely allies, buried truths, and the shadows that follow us when the world sleeps.