The Last Crownfold (Paperback or Softback)

The Last Crownfold is the sixth and final book in Robert G. Pranic’s adult romantic fantasy saga, The Hollow Court Cycle.
Across five books, Mara Calder has been pulled from the surface world into the Hollowlands, a hidden realm of abundance, danger, courtly splendour, bloodline power, ancient roads, forbidden desire, and beautiful systems built on cruelty. She has been dressed as a bride, marked as a threat, hunted as a key, desired as a woman, and feared as the one force the old courts could neither fully claim nor fully silence.
Now the Crownfold is breaking.
The gates are no longer secret. The hidden routes are open. Earth knows something vast lies beneath it, something capable of feeding the hungry, healing the sick, changing borders, and destroying every political certainty built on scarcity. The Hollowlands, in turn, can no longer pretend its old houses, queens, binding laws, bride customs, and bloodline monopolies were ever natural. Every hidden bargain is becoming public. Every old throne is looking for a way to survive.
At the centre of the storm stands Mara Calder.
She has learned that power does not always arrive as a crown. Sometimes it arrives as a choice no one else is willing to make. Sometimes it arrives as a lover’s hand reaching for hers in a room full of witnesses. Sometimes it arrives as a gate opening beneath a world that has lied to itself for too long.
Ronan Halward has chosen Mara with every part of himself the court once trained into obedience. He has been guard, captain, weapon, lover, witness, and wounded man. But the final war will test him differently. The old powers have learned that Mara and Ronan’s bond opens roads no crown can command, and every enemy understands that love freely chosen is the one thing most worth corrupting.
As Ilyan, Maelor, Liora, Darian, Elaris, Tamsin, Cael’s surviving influence, the Root Court, and the people of both worlds move towards the final reckoning, Mara must face the one question that has haunted the entire series.
Can a system built on ownership be transformed without leaving its roads intact?
The Last Crownfold is a dark, sensual, emotionally charged romantasy finale about love, power, sacrifice, consent, rebellion, and the terrible cost of building a future that cannot be owned.

Robert G. Pranic is an Australian author and publisher whose work spans one of the broadest independent genre catalogues in contemporary Australian self-publishing. Through his imprint, Cinarp Industries, he has published and developed novels across romantic fantasy, noir crime, detective fiction, thrillers, science fiction, westerns, historical fiction, horror, action-adventure, and speculative drama.His fiction is driven by high-stakes premises, emotionally intense character arcs, cinematic conflict, and a deep interest in how individuals resist systems of power. Whether writing about hidden courts, alien regimes, noir detectives, frontier outlaws, political danger, supernatural dread, or impossible worlds beneath the ordinary one, Robert G. Pranic's stories often return to the same essential human questions: who gets to decide what a person is worth, what love demands, what justice costs, and how far someone will go to remain free.The Hollow Court Cycle is his adult romantic fantasy saga that blends dark court intrigue, forbidden desire, sensual tension, political fantasy, dangerous magic, and emotionally complex romance. The Last Crownfold concludes the series by bringing Mara Calder and Ronan Halward to the final reckoning between love freely chosen and a world built to turn every bond into power.