Name: Bethany C. Morrow: The Body
Start: 2026-02-09T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-09T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 110 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21701-5630, United States

On Monday, February 9, join us at C. Burr Artz Library from 6:30-7:30 pm to celebrate author Bethany C. Morrow’s latest release, The Body. This chilling thriller follows Mavis, a woman struggling to recover from her religious past while facing unearthly attacks aimed to destroy her too-good-to-be-true marriage. Bethany will be in-conversation with local author Hailey Piper. Following their discussion, Bethany will answer questions and sign books. Copies of The Body will be available for purchase at the event.
This event is free and open to the public, presented in partnership with Frederick County Public Libraries. For accessibility requests, email [email protected] at least two (2) weeks prior to the event.
About the book: It Follows meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in The Body, a pulse-pounding supernatural horror story from bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow, where one woman must survive a series of bizarre and escalating attacks on her marriage.
Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible expectations and soul-shredding critiques have dug deep into her mind, and she’s taunted by the knowledge that even when she’s done nothing wrong, she’ll never be right.
Now Mavis is afraid she’s about to lose the only thing she has: her husband, Jerrod. The man she’s always known was too good to be true. No one thinks she deserves him—not even after surviving the serial cheater they wanted her to stick by—and soon they’ll all find out they were right.
Mavis is already unraveling when a brush with death shows her what real fear looks like. Soon, she’s under constant attack from all directions. As the assaults turn increasingly vicious and bizarre, Mavis realizes that Hell isn’t reserved for the afterlife.
And sinner or not, no one is coming to save her.
About the author: Bethany C. Morrow is a national bestselling author. Her young adult novels include A Song Below Water, A Chorus Rises, and the Little Women remix, So Many Beginnings, and she is editor/contributor to the young adult anthology Take The Mic, which won the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature award. Her adult novels include Mem, Cherish Farrah, and The Body. Her work has been featured in The LA Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. She is included on USA Today‘s list of 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.
About the moderator: Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Game in Yellow, All the Hearts You Eat, and other books of dark fiction. She’s also the author of over 100 short stories appearing in Weird Tales, The End of the World As We Know It, and elsewhere, with non-fiction appearing in Writer’s Digest, Library Journal, and more. She lives with her wife in Maryland and can be found at http://www.haileypiper.com .