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The Millstone Of Knowledge: Book 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798241507303)
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Alexander Desmarais
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xA single question can topple an empire built on silence.
In a world where literacy is heresy and knowledge is forbidden, fourteen-year-old Kael discovers a secret library hidden beneath his mill-and with it, the truth about his executed father and vanished mother. They were revolutionaries who believed that understanding, not obedience, could set people free.
When his mentor is beaten to death for the crime of writing, Kael inherits an unfinished printing press and an impossible mission: spread knowledge through a network of the curious before the Temple's brutal enforcers can silence him forever.
Armed with smuggled ink, forged components, and a growing circle of allies, Kael begins printing the one thing the regime fears most-questions. But each pamphlet distributed, each farmer taught chemistry, each truth revealed, tightens the noose around his neck.
High Inquisitor Corvus is closing in, and he knows that the boy who grinds grain by day is building a revolution by night. The hunt has become personal. The stakes have become absolute.
Because once you teach someone to question, they can never be made ignorant again. And some truths, once learned, burn too bright to extinguish.
The millstone grinds on. Knowledge spreads. And tyranny trembles.
The Millstone is a dystopian coming-of-age tale about the power of literacy, the cost of truth, and the quiet courage it takes to light a single candle in the darkness-knowing it might burn down the world.
Author: Alexander Desmarais
ISBN-13: 9798241507303
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2026
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.83d
In a world where literacy is heresy and knowledge is forbidden, fourteen-year-old Kael discovers a secret library hidden beneath his mill-and with it, the truth about his executed father and vanished mother. They were revolutionaries who believed that understanding, not obedience, could set people free.
When his mentor is beaten to death for the crime of writing, Kael inherits an unfinished printing press and an impossible mission: spread knowledge through a network of the curious before the Temple's brutal enforcers can silence him forever.
Armed with smuggled ink, forged components, and a growing circle of allies, Kael begins printing the one thing the regime fears most-questions. But each pamphlet distributed, each farmer taught chemistry, each truth revealed, tightens the noose around his neck.
High Inquisitor Corvus is closing in, and he knows that the boy who grinds grain by day is building a revolution by night. The hunt has become personal. The stakes have become absolute.
Because once you teach someone to question, they can never be made ignorant again. And some truths, once learned, burn too bright to extinguish.
The millstone grinds on. Knowledge spreads. And tyranny trembles.
The Millstone is a dystopian coming-of-age tale about the power of literacy, the cost of truth, and the quiet courage it takes to light a single candle in the darkness-knowing it might burn down the world.
Author: Alexander Desmarais
ISBN-13: 9798241507303
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2026
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.83d
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