Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Every wall in Elveyra remembers the people who belong there. Then the city begins forgetting their names.Elveyra rises in seven terraces above the sea. Its homes, bridges, clinics, and sea wall are held together by living glass shaped from human memory.Mara Venn was once the city’s greatest memory mason, a master craftsperson who could turn a remembered voice, touch, or moment into structural strength. Eighteen years after a disaster ended her career and shattered her family, she is called back when impossible failures begin spreading through the city.A bakery puts its oven in the street.A house accepts a family’s labor but refuses to recognize them as residents.A clinic returns the dead to the wrong rooms.A bridge forgets how to carry people.And beneath it all, blue fractures are moving toward the sea wall.With the Blue Quake approaching, Mara has little time to discover what is happening. Her estranged daughter, Romy, has spent years preserving the stories of people the city erased. A harbor glassworker finds traces of her missing brother inside a wealthy family’s walls. Every new clue points toward a hidden system built from memories that were never freely given.The deeper Mara goes, the more terrifying the truth becomes.Elveyra is not simply forgetting its people.The city has survived by using them.To save Elveyra, Mara must uncover what happened eighteen years ago, face the daughter who no longer trusts her, and decide whether repair means preserving the world she helped build or surrendering the power that once defined her.The City Stole Our Names is a standalone adult fantasy about stolen memory, family guilt, hidden power, and the difficult work of building something better after the truth comes out.
