Sabrina Granger has a reputation among the supernatural community of Ashcroft as someone who is competent and capable. She styles herself as a witch, guided on by the tutelary spirit known as the Wicked Witch—who Sabrina affectionately refers to as "Grandmother"—the ghost of a wise woman murdered around the Trier Witch Trials. Over the last few years, Sabrina has pulled together others like herself, and teaches them to lay ghosts to rest and protect the living from the dead. Vampires and sorcerers are no trouble for her, and werewolves don't scare her. She wasn't always capable or competent. At one point she was a scared little girl with an 'imaginary' friend who taught her magic rituals.

Sabrina died when she was eight. On her way to a Halloween party, Her parents' van was totaled in an accident. When she was laying there dying in the hospital, a ghost came to her and offered her a second chance. All she had to do was share her body, and in exchange she would gain new powers and a new life. An eight year old faced with an unfair death, she agreed. 

But coming back to life didn't solve her problems. She had no parents, and for several years she bounced through half a dozen of them. When she finally got to the Cunninghams, she thought that she might have found her forever home. There was just one problem: She was a girl, and the Cunninghams thought she was a boy. Other families had rejected her. Would this loving one do the same?

Twenty one years later, Sabrina gets a text from her foster mother. Words have appeared on the wall of her younger brother:

DARYL KILLED ME

Deadname is a ghost story about being trans, worrying for your sisters, and being haunted by your own past. It's a story about living, even when you're dead. It's a story about recovering from trauma and helping others to avoid it.

It depicts violent conflict with dangerous ghosts, discusses the trauma that queer people are forced to live through, and heavily features suicidal ideation and a past suicide attempt as part of it's plot. It is a story about the families that we build when the ones we were born with aren't there.