Cold Truths Warm Graves
Lore
Mannix ‘Nix’ Rhodes thought he was done running. Thought he’d finally found something like peace with Zaeem Banks, the man who loved him hard and hated him quiet. But the streets remember everything. One setup. One beatdown caught on camera. One reward flyer blowing down Edmondson Avenue…and suddenly everybody think they know the price on Nix’s head.
Zaeem tries to hold him close, keep him breathing, keep him honest, but Reese’s shadow still stretches across the city, even from the grave. And when Reese’s cousin D’Mar shows up pushing fear like a product, the block gets colder, the nights get louder, and the truth Nix been hiding can’t stay buried no more.
Briyanee gets dragged into the storm, old wounds rip back open, and a war starts that none of them are prepared to lose. Love ain’t soft here, it’s a weapon. And the only way out is through every lie they told to protect each other.
Cold Truth, Warm Graves is a messy, dangerous, heart heavy urban love story about two black men trying to outrun death, destiny, and everything they did to survive.

