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GRiND
Malcolm Brooks gives himself one year.
One year to change his life. One year to turn late nights, low wages, and unfinished dreams into something real. One year to prove that everything he’s been carrying all these years actually meant something.
It starts July 7, 2032.
Ends July 7, 2033.
No safety net. No guarantees. No applause.
Just alarms at 4:17 A.M., long warehouse shifts, empty bank accounts, and a notebook filled with ideas too big for the life he’s currently living.
But the harder Malcolm works, the more the year starts to shift from something he’s building… into something he’s surviving.
Between overtimes and breakdowns, he finds himself caught between loyalty and ambition, love and loneliness, purpose and pressure. The people around him—his mother, his coworkers, a fading friend, and a new connection that feels too real to ignore—begin to shape a question he can’t
What does it cost to keep going when the dream doesn’t move as fast as your life is falling apart?
Raw, intimate, and emotionally unflinching, GRiND follows one man through a year that tests not just what he wants to become—but whether he can hold onto himself while trying.
A story for anyone who has ever worked in silence, dreamed in exhaustion, and wondered if they were falling behind in a race nobody clearly explained.
Because sometimes the grind isn’t what builds you.
Sometimes it’s what reveals you.
One year to change his life. One year to turn late nights, low wages, and unfinished dreams into something real. One year to prove that everything he’s been carrying all these years actually meant something.
It starts July 7, 2032.
Ends July 7, 2033.
No safety net. No guarantees. No applause.
Just alarms at 4:17 A.M., long warehouse shifts, empty bank accounts, and a notebook filled with ideas too big for the life he’s currently living.
But the harder Malcolm works, the more the year starts to shift from something he’s building… into something he’s surviving.
Between overtimes and breakdowns, he finds himself caught between loyalty and ambition, love and loneliness, purpose and pressure. The people around him—his mother, his coworkers, a fading friend, and a new connection that feels too real to ignore—begin to shape a question he can’t
What does it cost to keep going when the dream doesn’t move as fast as your life is falling apart?
Raw, intimate, and emotionally unflinching, GRiND follows one man through a year that tests not just what he wants to become—but whether he can hold onto himself while trying.
A story for anyone who has ever worked in silence, dreamed in exhaustion, and wondered if they were falling behind in a race nobody clearly explained.
Because sometimes the grind isn’t what builds you.
Sometimes it’s what reveals you.
255 pages, Paperback
Published July 7, 2026
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