The Ruinblood Heirloom Saga The Scent of Ruin Book 1 (Paperback)

Book One of The Ruinblood Heirloom Saga She came home in heels wearing grief like perfume-and vengeance like pearls. After two stints in rehab and a lifetime of being someone else s disappointment Alestria Fawnwell returns to her Southern hometown to bury her estranged aunt. But funerals in the Ruinblood family aren t about closure-they re about performance. And Alestria? She s done playing the part they gave her. Beneath the funeral flowers and lacquered smiles lies a decaying legacy of secrets: a missing will a house that smells like old sins and a family that would rather bury the truth than let it speak. As Alestria peels back the layers of her aunt s death she s forced to confront her own transformation-from the boy they buried long ago into the woman they can t control. Told with biting wit raw elegance and theatrical Southern noir flair The Scent of Ruin is a haunting literary debut about bloodlines betrayal and becoming the villain in your family s story... on purpose. Perfect for readers who love: ✔️ Queer main characters with bite ✔️ Southern Gothic & literary suspense ✔️ Dark family secrets and unreliable narrators ✔️ Gorgeous prose that wounds and seduces ✔️ Found family revenge and rising from ruin