When Jennifer Grimme touches an ancient textile fragment in her grandmother’s cellar, she sees visions of Viking women weaving alongside Anglo-Saxon neighbors—a collaboration that powerful forces have spent centuries erasing from history.
Jennifer inherited more than just a struggling textile shop in Yorkshire. She inherited a bloodline ability to extract memories woven into fabric itself, a Norse tradition called “memory-weaving” that proves English heritage isn’t as pure as some would have the world believe.
But the Pattern Masters—a secretive network operating within Britain’s most prestigious cultural institutions—will stop at nothing to suppress this knowledge. They’ve rewritten history for generations, and they won’t let one small-town weaver unravel their carefully constructed narrative.
Perfect for readers who loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Invisible Bridge, this spellbinding tale weaves together ancient magic and modern conspiracy.
As Jennifer uncovers fragment after fragment of the legendary Accord Tapestry, she realizes the visions aren’t just memories—they’re proof of a collaboration that could shatter everything the Pattern Masters have built. Now she must choose between safety in silence and the dangerous power of truth.
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Richard French takes complex systems and makes them understandable. He helped pioneer the open-source web as General Manager of OSDN (Slashdot, SourceForge) and also held executive leadership roles in enterprise technology at Automation Anywhere and Oracle. He now writes biblical commentary, speculative fiction, and non-fiction on ethics and reflective practice, work united by one question: what would you risk for the truth? He writes from the Pacific Northwest and publishes through Indie Pen Press.
Paul Weiss –
Standing in opposition to those who would deconstruct history and rewrite it for their own purposes can be a dangerous thing to do!
Along with an old-fashioned and financially struggling textile shop in Yorkshire, Jennifer has also inherited from her grandmother the psychic ability to extract and vividly see and hear memories woven into the ancient fabrics dating back to the times of Saxon and Norse interactions so many centuries ago. These vivid memories portray a collegial collaboration between her Anglo-Saxon forebears and “visiting” Viking sailors long portrayed as bloodthirsty invaders.
The Pattern Masters is a secretive group operating in Britain who refuse to accept the possibility of this relationship and will do anything to preserve what they see as the “pure” bloodlines of an un-mixed Anglo-Saxon heritage.
Aside from being a thoroughly entertaining fantasy with a clever underlying premise that defies comparison with anything I’ve read in this genre before, I felt that THE MEMORY WEAVERS was also a clever allegory with a most timely modern message. My interpretation only, of course, but I’m convinced that the Pattern Masters’ fanatical insistence that English lineage was a pure undiluted blood line, was intended to metaphorically represent modern day racism or xenophobia. And the message? Standing in staunch opposition to racism is simply the right thing to do.
Well done, Mr French. Definitely recommended with the hope that I’ll have the opportunity to read more of your work.