The Age of Names

New York, 1939. Winter Garcia is eighteen, caught between a city organizing fear into obedience and a hidden war where names, wounds, promises, and duties carry real power. When his school ledger forgets him, his mirror goes black, and the beautiful man from his dreams appears behind him without entering the room, Winter discovers that recognition creates access—but never permission. The Age of Names is historical urban fantasy about identity, answerability, dangerous protection, and the struggle to remain capable of another answer when grief, empire, family, or love tries to become a person’s only name.