Dally Harper is a thrall, a monster slave created to fight endless wars. His kind might out-number humans on the Fronts, but Dally is stuck in a human city pouring concrete and fighting bush-league cage matches. After a good win and a bad sale he finds himself in an aristocrat's house with an abusive master, and decides he wants out, whatever it takes. The Loyal Ones follows Dally as he struggles to survive a dark biopunk-fantasy world, where the biggest threat is the human race. **CW** Contains explicit violence and gore, slavery, implied sexual assault of main characters. None of these are framed as positive or glorified, however they do have a strong impact on the plot and main characters.