N.M Graves

Crimson Veil (Book 1)

CRIMSON VEIL — BOOK ONE In a rain-soaked Manhattan haunted by impossible reflections and whispers beneath the streets, Mina Vale lives an ordinary life—until the sky opens its eye. What begins as a night of strange blackouts and mass hallucinations spirals into a cosmic catastrophe as reality itself starts to drown from the inside. Mirrors become gateways. Floodwater rises from beneath the city. And something ancient buried below the world begins waking up. The only person who seems prepared for the apocalypse is Lucien—a mysterious man carrying memories of countless dead worlds and a blade forged to kill gods. He claims Mina is the key to stopping the coming Flood. But the truth is far worse. As the city collapses beneath an endless black ocean beyond reality, Mina begins recovering fragments of impossible memories: worlds swallowed by darkness, galaxies drowned beneath cosmic tides… and Lucien dying for her over and over across countless timelines. Because this is not the first world to end. And Mina may not be humanity’s savior— but the forgotten queen of the catastrophe itself. Blending gothic horror, psychological dread, cosmic terror, and tragic dark fantasy, Crimson Veil: Book One — The Hunger Below is the beginning of an apocalyptic saga about memory, grief, identity, and the terrifying weight of surviving the end of reality.

Back Rooms

When maintenance technician Eli Morrow discovers a hidden corridor beneath an abandoned office building, he accidentally enters the Back Rooms—a vast labyrinth of impossible worlds hidden beneath reality. Inside, time stands still. Endless yellow hallways stretch beyond sight. Forgotten places exist where no place should be. Entire levels connect through impossible doors, leading to flooded poolrooms, infinite hotels, industrial machine-cities, and stranger realms waiting in the dark. Lost and unable to find a way home, Eli encounters Sophie Vale, a mysterious girl who seems to remember events before they happen, and Mr. Static, a smiling entity that watches from television screens scattered throughout the maze. As Eli journeys deeper into the Back Rooms, he discovers that the endless corridors are only the beginning. Ancient forces move between the levels, forgotten people leave warnings behind, and a structure known as the Blackout Tower appears again and again at the center of impossible drawings, broken memories, and terrifying visions. The deeper they travel, the more one truth becomes clear: The Back Rooms are not abandoned. Something has been watching from the beginning.

Moonlight Confessions

Here’s a back-cover style description for MOONLIT CONFESSIONS: Book One under 1,800 characters: MOONLIT CONFESSIONS: BOOK ONE For five hundred years, Adrian Vale and Evelyn Blackthorne have lived the same impossible life. Every ten years, they meet in a different city somewhere in the world. Every ten years, they fall in love all over again. And every ten years, they say goodbye. Neither knows who cursed them. Neither knows why they can never stay together for long. What they do know is that every time they try to remain in the same place, tragedy follows. Cities burn. Lives are lost. History itself seems determined to tear them apart. So they keep moving. Venice. New York. Paris. Decade after decade. Century after century. But time changes everything—even immortals. As the modern world races toward a new century, Adrian begins questioning the fear that has ruled their lives for generations. What if the curse is a lie? What if they have spent five hundred years running from a fate that never existed? For the first time, they dare to hope. For the first time, they consider staying. And for the first time, something begins watching them from the shadows. A mysterious figure appears where none should exist. Ancient secrets buried beneath centuries of separation begin to surface. The pattern that has defined their lives starts to crack, revealing a truth far older—and far more dangerous—than either of them imagined. A sweeping gothic romance spanning centuries and continents, MOONLIT CONFESSIONS is a story of love, memory, sacrifice, and the terrifying possibility that forever might actually be possible. Some loves never die. Some loves refuse to.

The Legend Files Volume 1

THE LEGEND FILES follows investigative journalist Emma Reyes as she travels across America documenting some of the country’s most famous urban legends. What begins as a search for explanations behind the Dark Watchers of California, the Fresno Nightcrawlers, and the Jersey Devil quickly becomes something far larger—and far older. Each case uncovers the same impossible symbol, the same hidden locations, and evidence that these legends are not isolated phenomena but pieces of a single ancient mystery. As Emma follows the trail, she discovers forgotten structures buried beneath forests, prehistoric murals depicting creatures from modern folklore, and signs that unknown entities have been watching humanity for thousands of years. The deeper she investigates, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Anonymous messages warn her to stop. Photographs arrive from impossible sources. Ancient carvings reveal events before they happen. Eventually, Emma discovers that she is not merely investigating the legends—she is part of them. Her image appears in murals older than recorded history, standing beside cryptids and impossible doorways that connect to something beyond human understanding. At the center of every mystery lies an ancient symbol and a single recurring image: a colossal eye watching the world from the darkness beneath history itself. Blending investigative horror, American folklore, cosmic mystery, and found-evidence storytelling, THE LEGEND FILES explores what happens when every legend is true—and all of them lead back to the same awakening force.

The Flood Cycle (Book 1)

When a devastating storm tears through the city, Elias begins experiencing impossible visions—flooded hallways, abandoned hospital rooms, faceless children, and a haunting woman whose whistling echoes through the rain. What first feels like grief and trauma slowly reveals itself to be something far older and far more terrifying. As reality begins collapsing around him, Elias discovers an endless dream-world hidden beneath human loneliness itself: a place where forgotten children, broken memories, and abandoned souls are gathered by an ancient cosmic entity known only as the Mother Below. The deeper Elias falls into the nightmare, the more he realizes the storm was never natural. It was searching. Now, trapped between reality and a living dream, Elias must fight to save his daughter before she is claimed by the endless world beneath the rain—a place where suffering becomes memory, memory becomes identity, and forgotten people never truly disappear. Blending psychological horror, cosmic dread, emotional tragedy, and surreal dreamlike imagery, this manga explores grief, isolation, family, and the terrifying human fear of being left behind. A dark supernatural journey through flooded worlds, endless hospitals, and living nightmares— where even monsters are born from loneliness.

Ghost Stories Book 1

GHOST STORIES: Book 1 is a collection of ten standalone supernatural tales that explore haunted roads, forgotten apartments, abandoned schools, lost passengers, drowned secrets, and the restless dead. Each chapter follows a different protagonist confronting a different haunting. Some ghosts seek revenge. Some seek justice. Some simply want to be remembered.

Harvest Season

HARVEST SEASON is a grounded action-thriller comic series set during California’s illegal cannabis boom of the late 1980s. Hidden deep within the redwood mountains of Northern California, a small crew struggles to protect a multimillion-dollar grow operation from threats on every side. DEA helicopter raids circle overhead. Wildfires threaten to erase entire seasons of work in a single afternoon. Armed thieves roam the back roads. And as powerful cartels begin expanding into the region, the mountains become a battlefield where survival often depends on who sees danger first. At the center of the story is Jack Mercer, a former Vietnam helicopter mechanic who serves as the farm’s security chief. Alongside master grower Eddie Cruz, former EMT Sarah Mercer, and the increasingly suspicious young trimmer Tommy Voss, Jack must navigate a world where trust is scarce and mistakes are fatal. What begins as a story about protecting a hidden farm slowly evolves into a larger conflict over territory, money, loyalty, and survival. Rival growers disappear. Entire operations are wiped out. Cartel convoys move through forgotten logging roads. And every season brings new enemies.

The Prospect

THE PROSPECT When nineteen-year-old Evan Cole buries his father, legendary Iron Saints member Mason Cole, he believes he’s leaving that world behind. Instead, the funeral becomes the first step toward it. Drawn to the Iron Saints Motorcycle Club by grief, curiosity, and the need to understand the man his father really was, Evan begins spending time at the clubhouse. What he finds isn’t the violent criminal organization everyone warned him about. He finds family. Brotherhood. Loyalty. A place where people look out for one another and where everyone seems to belong. As a hangaround, Evan starts at the bottom—sweeping floors, hauling trash, running errands, and earning trust. Under the guidance of club president Ray Mercer and longtime prospect Tommy Graves, he is slowly introduced to the culture, traditions, and unwritten rules that hold the club together. But beneath the barbecues, family gatherings, and lifelong friendships lies another reality. The Iron Saints operate in a world built on debt, favors, power, and loyalty. The deeper Evan gets, the harder it becomes to separate the good men he admires from the dangerous choices they make. Told entirely from the perspective of a young man standing at the edge of adulthood, THE PROSPECT is a grounded crime drama about belonging, identity, family, and the slow seduction of a life that can never truly be left behind. Blood doesn’t make a man. Choice does.

The Fixer

When the rich, powerful, and untouchable find themselves trapped in scandals, crimes, and disasters they can’t survive, they call one man: Marcus Kane. Known only through whispers and a phone number that officially doesn’t exist, Marcus is a professional fixer who specializes in making impossible problems disappear. Politicians, CEOs, celebrities, criminals—everyone lies to him, and Marcus expects it. His job isn’t to judge. It’s to uncover the truth before it destroys his clients. But when a terrified governor wakes in a luxury hotel room beside a dead woman, Marcus discovers something is terribly wrong. The crime scene has been staged. The victim was dead before she arrived. And someone has carefully engineered the entire situation to lure Marcus into the open. As bodies pile up and a luxury hotel explodes in a devastating act of terrorism, Marcus finds himself targeted by a hidden organization known only as The Archive—a secretive power operating behind governments, corporations, and institutions. For the first time in his career, Marcus is no longer cleaning up someone else’s mess. He’s the target. A gritty noir thriller packed with conspiracies, corruption, mystery, and explosive action, THE FIXER follows a man who has spent his life protecting the powerful—only to discover he may have been working for something far more dangerous than he ever imagined. Some don’t fix the system. They own it.

Space Pirates Inc.

SPACE PIRATES INC. is a sci-fi workplace comedy where the most feared pirates in the galaxy are trapped inside the very thing they hate most: a corporation. Captain Rex Bloodstorm dreamed of terrorizing star systems, looting treasure, and living the outlaw life. Instead, he spends most of his time buried in performance reviews, compliance reports, budget meetings, and mandatory leadership retreats as a senior manager at Space Pirates Incorporated, the galaxy’s largest piracy corporation. Alongside an increasingly dysfunctional crew—including Linda from HR, Greg the perpetually stressed quartermaster, Steve the dangerously optimistic intern, and KR-7 the compliance droid—Rex struggles to balance adventure and bureaucracy while trying to remember why he became a pirate in the first place. What begins as a comedy about corporate piracy escalates into a galaxy-spanning conflict involving outlaw pirate captain Vex Black, the mysterious founder known only as The Shareholder, a hidden financial data core capable of collapsing governments, and the return of the legendary Black Flag Fleet—a lost armada of perfect pirates abandoned a century ago. Combining space opera, workplace satire, action, and absurd corporate humor, SPACE PIRATES INC. explores what happens when rebellion becomes an industry, piracy becomes a business, and the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals are forced to attend team-building exercises. Tagline: Plundering the galaxy. Pending approval. 🏴‍☠️🚀📈

Terp Wars

TERP WARS is a high-octane sports parody comic series set in a near future where cannabis cultivation has become the world’s biggest competitive sport. In the International Terpene Circuit (ITC), elite teams battle for championships, sponsorships, fame, and billions in prize money by producing the greatest flower ever grown. At the center of the story is Team Backlot, a small underfunded crew of underground cultivators led by veteran grower Captain Marco Vega. Armed with little more than experience, ingenuity, and relentless determination, Backlot enters the professional circuit as massive underdogs. Everything changes when they unveil Backlot 7 (B7), a mysterious strain that shatters records and immediately attracts the attention of rival teams, corporate giants, celebrity judges, and dangerous underground competitors. As the season unfolds, Team Backlot discovers that victory is only part of the game. Behind the glamour of the ITC lies a world of espionage, sabotage, stolen genetics, billion-dollar corporate wars, and secret histories hidden deep within the sport itself. Blending the intensity of Formula 1, the drama of professional sports, and the absurdity of taking cultivation far too seriously, TERP WARS is a fast-paced, comedic, and high-stakes series where every point matters, every strain has a story, and— Victory is measured in flavor.