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What if you could see a murder before it happened? And the only way was to drink from a killer's private vintage?

Max Holland is a man at the end of his rope. His bar is facing foreclosure, his marriage has crumbled, and the bottle is his only remaining friend. When a mysterious, coffin-like crate arrives—an inheritance from a 17th-century ancestor he never knew—he finds not salvation, but a single, ancient bottle of wine: The Bloodvine Estate.

He thinks it’s a cruel joke. But the first taste is not of wine. It’s a vision of pure horror—a brutal murder, seen through the eyes of the killer. Every sip plunges him deeper into the mind of a sadistic, spectral entity, a winemaker who nourished his vines with blood and is now using Max as a window to kill again.

The visions become prophecies, the town’s bodies begin to pile up, and Max’s frantic warnings are dismissed as the ravings of a drunkard. Discredited by the police and seen as a threat by his ex-wife, Max is the only one who knows the truth. But the winemaker’s twisted game is just beginning, and its ultimate prize is the one thing Max has left to lose: his daughter.

To stop a ghost, he must embrace the madness it offers. To save his child, he must drink deep from a vintage of death, even if it costs him his sanity… and his soul.

Taster’s Vintage is a standalone supernatural horror novel from the Shadow Shelf, a collection of chilling tales by Leland Grave that can be read in any order.