Roots of Rebellion

In a country ruled by scripture, truth is whatever the Flame decrees.Thorne Ingram's family feeds the State. They designed the towers that grow its food, and in a nation that burns the impure to stay pure, being useful is the closest thing to being safe.Then the crops fail. Sire Wise announces that the Ingrams have already found a cure - before they have - and orders their untested formula sprayed through the towers. Within days a man is dead, and every screen in the State names the killers: Thorne's family.Now the Ingrams are running into the Undeveloped, the land beyond the fence the State swears is empty. It isn't. What waits there is stranger than the stories: people the State used as test subjects, strangers whose pasts run straight through his own, and a light that breathes from the walls. For a while it feels like sanctuary - until the price of the truth comes due, and the tunnel's new leader proves willing to collect it in full.Some truths are buried. Some are only waiting to be found.Roots of Rebellion is Book I of the Roots of Rebellion Series, a YA Christian dystopian novel for readers of The Giver and fans of the post-collapse faith explored in The Book of Eli. A coming-of-age story rooted in loss, hope, and spiritual awakening, it asks what happens when one boy begins to wonder whether he was made for more than obedience.