Some spirits haunt. Others pour another glass.

Locked in a cellar beneath the family estate, Alestria Fawnwell is left alone with wine bottles, ghosts, and the memories she tried to drown. But sobriety is no sanctuary when every bottle whispers of betrayal, and every shadow reminds her of who she used to be—and what she might still become.

She Drank With the Dead is a chilling descent into memory, madness, and the brackish truth between love and harm. Told in haunting, nonlinear fragments, it peels back the lacquered surface of legacy to reveal rot, recovery, and a reckoning years in the making.

This third book in The Ruinblood Heirloom Saga is a ghost-drenched, emotionally brutal meditation on identity, addiction, and the sacred act of setting yourself free—even if it means burning what raised you.

The cellar has no key. Only confessions.