Desert Foundations is the opening volume of Vessels of Eternity — a raw, intimate chronicle of two souls who meet at the edge of the map, where desire and destiny first collide.
Lilith flees the suffocating weight of expectation, inheritance, and the mother who would contain her. Armed with her grandfather’s Westfalia, a camera, and a hunger for the unknown, she crosses the Mojave’s endless horizon, seeking a voice she buried long ago. The desert strips her bare — of masks, of duty, of the scripts written for her body by others.
Lucas, bound to his routines and haunted by questions he can no longer ignore, crosses her path by chance — or by design. Together, they enter a space beyond language: a night beneath the stars where sex becomes more than pleasure, more than performance. It becomes transmission. Memory. Doorway.
In that vast and silent expanse, Lilith and Lucas find themselves not merely lovers, but vessels for something older than desire — a current that hums beneath skin, breath, and time itself.
Desert Foundations is a story of first awakenings: The body as temple, of sex as ritual, and of love as the architecture of becoming.
The Protagonist
Raised in the shadow of devotion, Lilith grew beneath the stern gaze of a devout mother and the watchful silence of her grandfather. Her mother’s faith was a fortress of rules and whispers, a cage of inherited dogma and silent sacrifices. Yet within that austere world, Lilith’s spirit sparked—wild,
Lucas moves through the world with the precision of a scientist and the reverence of a mystic. His mind constructs intricate frameworks, mapping time, consciousness, and the body’s subtle language with exacting care. Every thought is measured, every word chosen to articulate the delicate balance bet
Secondary Characters
She was once wild — barefoot in orchards, sunlit and unashamed. But after betrayal, she made a vow: to never feel again. What began as survival became
Bob Calder was never just the man behind the counter. For over fifty years, he served black coffee and buttered toast to truckers, teachers, lovers, a
Bonnie walks the edge between ruin and ritual, a woman shaped by heat, silence, and the hunger to possess what others overlook. Once a beauty queen in
He chose to become a phantom, haunted by a past he never had the courage to face. Running from consequences he wasn’t brave enough to own, he shed his
The husk Tales
The Husk Tales are a collection of secondary stories set within the Velvet Library universe, functioning as shadow narratives or “shells” that orbit the main Timenauts series. These tales explore peripheral characters, hidden moments, and untold experiences that echo and deepen the central themes of desire, transformation, and spiritual journey found in the primary storyline.
Like the outer husks of a seed, these stories reveal the subtle fractures, mysteries, and emotional resonances surrounding the core narrative. They offer readers a layered, immersive view into the universe, enriching the main saga with textures of vulnerability, power, and liminality.
Find their keys scattered within the books.
A Husk Tale from the Velvet Library She gave her life to God. Not in joy — in recompense.After desire left her abandoned, pregnant, ashamed, she sealed her flesh behind hymns and silence. Made a vow: no more hunger. No more sin.Only sacrifice. But when the lawyer reads her father’s will and speaks h
A Husk Tale from the Velvet Library Bonnie McCrae doesn’t fuck for pleasure. She fucks for proof. Out in the desert, behind the counter of a dying diner, Bonnie waits — not for love, not even for lust, but for the glitter of something worth taking. A belt loop. A charm. A badge. Each object tucked i
A Husk Tale from the Velvet Library He came to the ghost town seeking silence. Shelter. A place to disappear beneath the desert’s indifference. Haunted by a crime he never meant to commit — and a life he no longer believed he deserved — he chose ruin over return. But then, she arrived. A young woman
A Husk Tale from the Velvet Library In the faded hum of a desert café, Bob Calder wipes down the same counter where his wife once whispered filthy prayers over cherry pie. Grace is long gone now — buried under years and flour dust — but when a stranger named Lilith walks in, something stirs. The way
