Blood will be spilled. Spells will be broken.
A neon-lit noir where cyberpunk grit collides with awakening magic—and reality itself is cracking. NEW WORLD CITY is the first book in Spencer Hey’s genre-mashing hyperArcana series. A fast-paced thriller blending Blade Runner with hard-boiled detective fiction, street-level crime drama, and explosive magic.
When a sniper takes a shot at the mayor, top cop Shuwen Li becomes obsessed. But the deeper she digs, the more her reality fractures—until she’s facing horrors that shouldn’t exist.
She teams up with Uziel Silverman, a synth detective leading The Vigilantes League, to unravel a conspiracy that twists through every layer of the city. What starts as an assassination attempt becomes something far darker as ancient magic resurfaces in a world that thought it was done with the impossible.
But they’re not the only ones in this game. Ty Reese—retired boxer turned crime lord—is running for mayor when a demon crashes his campaign and nearly breaks him in two. Zijian Sun, queen of the Assassins Guild, knows the sniper’s secret and plans to weaponize the chaos. Eli Strauss Jr., the mayor himself, has made a devil’s bargain with an ancient fae wizard. And behind the scenes, The Stasi agent, Inola Montag, has orders to bury it all.
Six perspectives. One impossible case. A city built on lies is about to burn.
What readers SAY
★★★★★
This book drops you into a dark, neon city and never lets go. I loved following Shuwen and the synth vigilante as the case twisted in really smart ways. It feels like Blade Runner mixed with a street crime show, with magic sneaking in at the edges.
★★★★★
Pulled me in right away with its gritty atmosphere and nonstop tension. The writing is sharp and immersive—the kind of prose that makes you feel like you’re right there in the middle of the chaos.
★★★★★
This book absolutely rules. The characters are fun and complex, and the world-building is deep without being plodding. It’s a fast-paced ride: once you get into it, you won’t want to put it down! Can’t wait to see where the story goes next!
★★★★★
A phenomenal debut. A perfect mixture of fantasy noir, crime thriller, and cyberpunk. Prose reads like a story told in real time by a 1930s detective. The reader is pulled into a chaotic dystopian universe where slumbering magic is unexpectedly being reintroduced, creating the conditions for a battle between heroes, villains, and anti-heroes.
★★★★★
Fantastic characters and deep emotional, almost philosophical tones add to the immersion. If you are a gamer or simply an enjoyer of the science fiction genre and want to exercise your brain a bit, then jump in the pool that is New World City, I cannot recommend that enough.
★★★★★
I absolutely loved this book. It’s punchy and fast paced with loads of interesting and fun elements of science fiction, fantasy and hard boiled detective fiction. The narrative shifts between character perspectives, each of them fully formed and unique, giving each chapter its own texture.
Spencer Hey 