Author of High and Epic Fantasy
Holyoak Hall
Holyoak Hall is an epic fantasy author who has spent three decades living and breathing heroic fantasy as a role-playing game master. These experiences in worldbuilding and guiding his players through countless adventures, perilous quests, impossible challenges, and world-shaking conflicts have prepared Holyoak to write fantasy novels. Now, he’s bringing those unforgettable journeys to the page for your enjoyment.
A father of seven and aircraft mechanic by day, when he’s not crafting tales of heroes who stay true to themselves and inspire others to greatness, he’s bow hunting whitetail deer or keeping some of the world’s largest aircraft flying.
By Holyoak Hall
A Fantasy Novel
Alba, a rare white female kodai with blue eyes and forbidden earth elemental magic coursing through her veins, faces an impossible choice: remain in the only home she’s ever known and risk enslavement, or flee to the Un-Kodia—the ancestral kodai lands to the north she’s never seen. When the notorious human slaver Cyprian Malacor sets his sights on her, not just as another captured slave but as valuable breeding stock, her decision becomes a matter of life and death.
As Alba embarks on a treacherous journey across the territories of The Great Krag-Lunn, she must navigate a continent where humans are taught to consider her kind monsters, where her very existence is deemed property, and where the magic she wields is punishable by immediate execution. Each step takes her closer to freedom, but Cyprian’s relentless pursuit draws ever nearer, driven by the fortune he stands to make from her children.
With the shadows of the Kingdom of Woe stretching long behind her and the promise of her ancestral homeland beckoning ahead, Alba must embrace both her Kodai nature and her forbidden magic to survive. However, where humans reign supreme and “monster races” exist only to serve, Alba’s quest for freedom becomes a dangerous game of survival, identity, and power—one with the potential to reshape the fate of both human and The People of the Kodai forever.