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Pub Date Jun 30 2025 | Archive Date Mar 15 2026

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Description

A young superhero-to-be must team up with the mercenary who shot her father in the hopes of averting her own apocalypse in this this super-heroic combination of WATCHMEN and NEON GENESIS EVANGELION.

The year is 2061, and the world has ended. In the city of Asclepion, Sabra Kasembe dreams of a superheroic future yet wakes to the taste of blood and ash. When her father is shot six times in a heist gone wrong, she resolves to bring those responsible to justice—no matter where the trail might lead.

But with Asclepion caught between uncaring stewards and bloody insurrection, she'll need to team up with those who are used to working outside the system: a washed-up superhero, a brooding robotic woman, and the very man who shot her father. Because he is her only link to a conspiracy that threatens to shake the Functioning World to its core, and an insane plan they might be too late to stop.

It may be impossible to save a world on the brink of apocalypse without pushing it over the edge and, perhaps, the world doesn't deserve to be saved at all. As her reckoning approaches, and the shadows of her dreams fall across her present, Sabra realizes that her future may not be filled with the cries of those she's saved, but the screams of her victims...

IN SEKHMET'S SHADOW is a psychological "post-superhero" sci-fi thriller, and first of a trilogy (IN SEKHMET'S WAKE, IN SEKHMET'S HANDS.) It is intended for mature audiences and features violence, swearing, and ideas that may be considered traumatic or provocative. But remember this: everyone finds love in the end.

Fans of The Locked Tomb (Gideon the Ninth), The Expanse (Leviathan Wakes), Exordia, and Disco Elysium will find something to enjoy in this introspective action series. This is a story for those who want to answer the big questions: can superheroes reconcile the contradictions within capital and themselves, does power corrupt, and is it gay if you're a woman and she's a goth-rock robot?

Is it easier to end the world than end capitalism?


"Bad-ass doesn't even begin to describe it." -- Tommy Arnold

"An incredible work about the tension between pacifism and necessary violence, between godhood and humanity, and between choice and destiny. The pacing is so quick and clean between chapters, the character work so distinct that I never questioned whose POV I was reading." -- Della Collins 

A young superhero-to-be must team up with the mercenary who shot her father in the hopes of averting her own apocalypse in this this super-heroic combination of WATCHMEN and NEON GENESIS EVANGELION.
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A Note From the Publisher

Reviews on Goodreads/Amazon/social media appreciated. ARC provided is provided in the spirit of an honest review.

If you have any other feedback, questions, or comments, you can contact the author via jdrhodes.net

Reviews on Goodreads/Amazon/social media appreciated. ARC provided is provided in the spirit of an honest review.

If you have any other feedback, questions, or comments, you can contact the author...


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ISBN 9781764287203
PRICE $4.99 (USD)
PAGES 764

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