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Rebellion is Due book Cover on a black e-reader. Young Urmilian, his hair braided back, eyes outlined with kohl, wearing fitted bronze armour, a bronze disc kilt, holding a helmet in his left hand and leaning on a spear with his right, a quiver of arrows at his hip.

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Stay home and protect his family?
Or join his people’s fight for independence?

Everywhere he looks, 15-year-old Urmillian sees his people suffering under foreign rule. He longs to join his father’s uprising and free his people, despite father’s orders to protect the family home. When the uprising gets hairy and Urmillian’s younger brother calls for aid, Urmillian risks both their lives by joining his older sister on the front line.