The Thread Seers

Sixteen-year-old artist Lyra Chen can see the glowing threads that bind every choice to its consequence. When the visionary but grief-broken Professor Marcus Harlow ruptures those threads during an experiment gone wrong, reality itself begins to fray—and Lyra’s rare “Silver-Soul” sight becomes the Academy’s last hope. Dragged into the marble corridors of Threadweaver Academy, Lyra learns that the institution’s polished reputation hides centuries of stolen wisdom: Yoruba song-lines, Andean khipu mathematics, Chinese silk-seer rites. Harlow plans to fuse those traditions into a single extraction engine and bend the Weave to his will—unless Lyra refuses to be the lens that powers it. Her only allies are three first-years nobody expected to matter: • Milo, whose tinnitus is really the universe’s resonance made audible; • Zara, an empath whose emotions glow across her skin in shifting kente patterns; • Eli, a logic-driven analyst who reads knots of power like equations. Hunted by Syndicate operatives and navigating a campus half-ruined by rogue dimensional storms, the quartet must learn to weave communion, not control. To stop Harlow they’ll braid Yoruba fire, Andean memory knots and Japanese Ito-do precision into a living tapestry—without tearing each other apart. The final confrontation will demand the one price Lyra dreads: surrendering her sight to heal the Weave—and discovering what it truly costs to see the world as it is, not as we label it. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House and Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn, The Thread Seers blends dark-academia suspense with lush, multicultural magic, asking what we owe the knowledge we inherit—and what it means to be the bridge between worlds.