The city of New York has been born. It now joins the ranks of cities that have built a unique enough culture to become living entities with human avatars that embody the soul and spirit of the city. But something went wrong with New York's birth, and the avatars of the five boroughs find themselves racing against time to beat back a malicious force that is infecting the city and urging it toward collapse.

Okay, hear me out. You think you do not want a book about a parasitic entity overtaking a city. But you do. You want, you need this story of a city and its people rising up and coming together to fight. You need this story of loving your city, warts and all, and that love being powerful enough to save millions of humans.

You need this story of fighting gentrification and xenophobia by being your loudest, proudest self, this story where your race, gender, sexuality, your crudeness, scrappiness, battle-ready-ness is what saves you. No, I'm not crying, you're crying!