Grimwalker Number Seventeen

Grimwalker Number Seventeen is a gothic psychological horror novel that explores identity, obedience, and the terrifying cost of perfection.

Hunter has always believed he was chosen-crafted for purpose, trusted above all others, and destined to serve as the Empire's most loyal protector. But when he discovers a discarded mask etched with the number 17, everything he thought defined him begins to fracture. Hidden laboratories, sealed archives, and erased behavioral logs reveal a truth the palace was never meant to share: Hunter is not the first. He is part of a sequence-one of many replacements engineered to improve obedience with each iteration.

As whispers of earlier versions surface and a new successor is quietly prepared, Hunter is forced into a brutal "evaluation" designed to measure whether he remains useful... or expendable. Trapped between survival and self-discovery, he must decide whether to outperform the version before him-or destroy the system that keeps recreating him.

Dark, mind-bending, and emotionally devastating, Grimwalker Number Seventeen is a haunting descent into manufactured identity, institutional control, and the horror of discovering that your life may have been designed to end the moment you begin to question it.