Richard Hunter has retreated to his off grid home in the Yorkshire Dales to pursue an experiment: he means to live as if dreams matter, as if the imaginal realm is real, and then to see what happens. But when a forgotten Romano-British river goddess begins appearing in the dreams of half the village, and a fallen American tech billionaire arrives to restore the old rectory, Richard finds himself caught between worlds.
As his friend, the curate Amanda Beckinsdale, faces exile from her parish, and his mysterious housekeeper Miriam Doyle brings her ever deepening presence into his life, Richard must navigate the tension between metaphysics and materialism, between pattern-keeping and action. The goddess demands recognition, and Richard must learn what it means to navigate the labyrinth of mythic mystery, without claiming to know the way out.
The Archivist of Endings is literary mythopoetic fiction for readers who take dreams seriously, who understand that our late-world requires the preservation pattern and beauty, and who are willing to move slowly through mystery, without demanding simple answers.
