The battle for one city is over. The war for all of time has just begun. A year and a half after her harrowing battle to save a parallel-world New York, Sakima Tamanend is a living legend. Still trying to forget what it's like to kill, she now trains the city's children to shoot straight. But peace shatters when a ruthless alien armada scorches through the skies, killing her father and unleashing a horrifying bio-plague. In the chaos, Sakima inherits the crown she never wanted and a broken people on the brink of annihilation. Betrayed, hunted, and out of options, her only hope is to awaken a forbidden weapon sealed away for centuries-a machine built to kill gods. Its science defies reality, but the prototype has never been tested in battle. Sakima faces an impossible choice: submit to a merciless enemy or unleash a power that could destroy everything she's sworn to protect. Fans of the high-stakes warfare of Red Rising, the mythic scale of Dune, and the ruthless power plays of The Expanse will be hooked by City In My Hands. Immerse yourself in the saga where one warrior-queen's final gambit could turn the tide of a hopeless war-or lead the last of her people to their doom.