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If We Were Villains

by M.L. Rio

At an elite arts conservatory, seven Shakespearean actors blur the lines between performance and reality until tragedy shatters their insular world. A decade later, Oliver Marks emerges from prison ready to tell the truth about what happened that final year. Rio crafts a dark academic thriller soaked in theatrical obsession, examining how we perform identity and the violence lurking beneath aesthetic devotion.

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