The Weaver’s Ledger

About this book

Thirty-two-year-old corporate efficiency consultant Aris Thorne travels to a remote Scottish island to liquidate a centuries-old maritime cordage cooperative. Stripped of his boardroom authority, Aris struggles to navigate an ecosystem built on generational craftsmanship. When structural renovations reveal waterlogged ledgers and complex weave matrices hidden within the timber, the story reaches back to 1746. There, nineteen-year-old apprentice Moira Kavanagh faces the brutal aftershocks of the Jacobite uprisings, racing to encode the cooperative's economic blueprints into commercial rope patterns before Crown auditors dismantle their independence. As Aris decodes the historic matrices, he discovers they map long-forgotten distribution routes used to bypass feudal tariffs. Facing immense corporate pressure, Aris must decide whether to execute a hostile buyout that will displace the island's workforce, or leverage Moira's centuries-old legacy to secure heritage financing and transition the workshop into an employee-governed entity.

Book details

Genres:

Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction

Language:

en

Published:

2026-04-18

Content rating:

PG-13