1939 · New York
The Age
of Names
Book One of The Pale Dominion SeriesNew York is building two futures at once. On Mott Street, Winter Garcia wakes to one word in the fog of his mirror: RUN.
Enter the storyMott Street
A warning from beyond the human world.
RUN.
Eighteen-year-old Winter Garcia should be choosing his place in whatever future survives. He wants City College, a newspaper desk, and the tools to make officials explain themselves.
Instead, Belgrad—an immortal imprisoned beyond the human world—can enter his dreams, stand behind him in a mirror, and know things Winter has never said aloud. Then Winter vanishes from his school’s records. Shadows move when he is angry. Strangers begin watching Mott Street.
The roads beneath
Every name can become a route.
Beneath Manhattan, ancient roads are waking. A hidden Council prepares to classify Winter as a vassal, a weapon, or a passage between worlds.
- Above
- Mott Street remembers who belongs.
- Between
- City Hall keeps more than civic records.
- Below
- The roads carry recognition—and danger.
The war beneath the war
Power knows his name.
It does not know his answer.
Across the hidden roads waits the Horde—not merely an army of monsters, but surrendered personhood made contagious. To survive, Winter and the people who love him must decide what power is for—and whether protection remains love when it cannot hear no.
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