The Scent of Ruin

<p><strong>The Scent of Ruin</strong></p><p><em>By Alestria Fawnwell</em></p><p> </p><p>When Alestria Fawnwell walks back into her family's decaying Southern estate wearing black and bad intentions she isn't there for closure-she's there to dig up what the funeral tried to bury.</p><p> </p><p>Raised in a house that reeked of old money cold secrets and curated cruelty Alestria has spent her life clawing her way free-from addiction from expectation and from a legacy laced in lies. Now sober transformed and unapologetically herself she returns to face the will that names her heir to the very home that tried to destroy her.</p><p> </p><p>But nothing in this town stays buried for long.</p><p>Not the whispers.</p><p>Not the ghosts.</p><p>And certainly not the truth.</p><p> </p><p>A Southern Gothic tale of glamour grief and generational rot <em>The Scent of Ruin</em> is Book One of <em>The Ruinblood Heirloom Saga</em>. Twisted emotional and darkly seductive it's a story about becoming the woman they never saw coming-and making them regret ever calling you by your dead name.</p>