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Initiation: A Graywall Novel
Paperback
Series: Graywall Thriller, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At tradition is law. Silence is survival.
First-year cadet Riley Carver is assigned to Fourth Watch, the loneliest post on campus. At 03:59, a stranger steps from the fog, speaks an old Graywall password, and fires.
By morning, the academy calls it an accident.
Riley knows better. She saw the ring. She heard the phrase. And she knows the shot was not meant to kill her. It was meant to test her.
Beneath Graywall Military College lives an old order called the Wall, a brotherhood of trustees, officers, alumni, and clergy who protect the institution by rewriting the truth. When another cadet is framed for Riley's shooting, Riley has one choice: stay silent and survive, or build a record powerful enough to expose men who own every room she enters.
But the Wall does not fear violence.
It fears a witness.
Initiation is Book 1 in the Graywall thriller series, a dark military academy conspiracy thriller about secret societies, institutional power, faith under pressure, and one cadet who refuses to forget.
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