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A century of a nation's making, in one volume. The complete Iron Blood: The Unbroken Fire trilogy.

They came with a Bible in one hand and took the land with the other. And one by one — the spear-people of the hills, the cattle-people of the plains, the grove-people of the coast, the land-people of the ridges — a country of many peoples was broken, each on its own front, in its own tongue, alone.

But what the conquerors could never take was the decision to remember. From the colonial theft of the land to the forest war that shook an empire, from the silence of the camps to the streets where a new generation rose as one — this is the hundred-year story of how a divided people became a single nation, and how the fire that was lit on a hundred separate hills became one flame that could not be put out.

This complete edition contains all three novels of the trilogy:

BOOK ONE — MANY FIRES, ONE FLAME Before the forest, before the oath, there was the theft. A leader is murdered at a peace meeting. A people is marched south along a road that kills their cattle. A sacred grove is burned. And a girl of fourteen pours water she cannot spare into the dust and decides that a people who can still grieve are a people not yet conquered. The origin of "the keeping," and of the resistance that would one day rise as one.

BOOK TWO — THE RISING In the forests of 1953, a fighter's cell wages war against an empire with silence, sacrifice, and an oath sworn around a fire small enough to survive. In the streets of 2024, a young woman stands in tear gas outside a burning parliament, carrying a burden she cannot name. When a hidden journal surfaces, sixty years of silence break open, and two timelines converge into a single truth: the forest remembers everything.

BOOK THREE — THE RECKONING The regime has fallen. The thieves have fled. And now the hardest question of all must be answered — not what they were against, but what they are for. When a betrayal surfaces inside the movement, and the traitor is no villain but someone they love, the survivors must refuse the clean story every fallen regime is replaced by, and decide what kind of country they will build from the ash.

Spanning 1895 to the present, Iron Blood: The Unbroken Fire is an epic of colonial Kenya and the long road to freedom — inspired by the real peoples and events of the struggle, told through invented characters who stand in the long shadow of those who were real.

Many peoples. Many losses. One nation remembered.

The old generation fought on tribal fronts and lost divided. Their grandchildren, born of all of them and divided by none, finally fought as one. They can take the wood. They cannot take the decision.

Iron Blood: The Unbroken Fire-The Complete Trilogy

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