Good Boy Protocol

Author : Skye Arden
Published : March 7, 2026
Print length : 389 pages

Blurb:
Some truths don’t get buried. They get rewritten.
Adrian Holt, a former detective, now consults at the forensic hospital, Graybar Institute. He’s there to assess Mara Kessler, a famous killer. She murdered her husband on camera, then went mute.
Adrian took the job to uncover the truth about his brother Eli’s “suicide” within Graybar’s walls.
Mara ignores every question, but she taps her wedding ring like a code. She builds floor plans from puzzle pieces, guiding Adrian to doors he should never open. The deeper he digs, the stranger it becomes. Staff show up before he calls them. They quote his private notes back to him. Recordings exist that he never agreed to make.
Then Adrian finds a consent form dated after his father’s funeral—signed by his father.
When Graybar sends Adrian for a “wellness evaluation.” He soon learns how an investigator can become a patient.
Is Adrian losing his mind… or is the institute training him to become its next GOOD BOY?