About the author

LC Vale

Stories about the names power gives us—and the lives that remain possible when we answer for ourselves.

A fictional map of the hidden roads beneath Manhattan

LC Vale writes speculative fiction about personhood, power, memory, relation, and the worlds people must learn to live inside.

The Age of Names, Book One of The Pale Dominion Series, begins in 1939 New York, where Winter Garcia and the people who love him refuse to let prophecy, institutions, grief, or power decide the whole meaning of a person.

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The work

A city above. A war beneath it. People who refuse to become only the name another power gives them.