Hallie Thompson struggles with an unearthly dilemma. She desperately wants to help her Grandmother fulfill her dreams and build a women's shelter, but Tilly Whitelock's gold, heavily guarded by a three-hundred-year-old spell, is the only source of finance they can think of.
So, in desperation, they place a magic marker in a covert diary online, exposing Tilly's golden secret to the world, hoping that some magician will wake the demon so Hallie can kill her and lift the curse. In a hair-raising twist, Tilly is instead set free to unleash her mayhem on the world. Can Hallie stop her and save humanity?
Follow this riveting, suspenseful, dark fantasy to see what happens next.
Hallie Elain Thompson was conceived by extraordinary means and not born to be ordinary.
Born beneath a blood moon and raised among whispers of ancestral power, Hallie carries a legacy that stretches beyond memory, a lineage of dreamers, warriors, and women who walked between worlds. But in Negril, Jamaica, where myth hedonistic shenanigans bury mysticism, she wears a mask behind her lustrous Grandmother. Hallie's gifts are both a burden and a beacon.
To help her Grandmother's dreams come true, Hallie enters the unknown fearlessly and into a web of secrets spanning generations. Guided by cryptic visions, ancestral songs, and the haunting presence of a long-dead spirit, she must navigate a landscape of betrayal, ritual, and resistance as she battles evil while multitasking as the most popular girl in high school.
Uncovering the truth behind her family's legend, Hallie discovers that her voice, poetic, fierce, and unrelenting, may be the key to healing a fractured world.
The Legend of Hallie Elain Thompson is a dark contemporary fantasy steeped in mythic symbolism and emotional intensity. Blending poetic language with cinematic storytelling, it explores themes of memory, identity, and the sacred power of women's voices. For readers who love Toni Morrison's spiritual depth, Octavia Butler's speculative edge, and the lyrical fire of Ntozake Shange, this novel offers a journey at once intimate and epic.
This is not just Hallie's story. It is the story of every woman who has ever stood at the edge of silence and chosen to sing.
