THE BOOKSHOP CAT OF LUNA STATION
Warm mysteries among the stars.
Step into Luna Station, where old books still matter, impossible inscriptions arrive from the future, and one cybernetically augmented cat keeps finding clues before the humans do.
BOOK ONE
The Cat Who Read Tomorrow
Some books preserve the past. This one has come to save the future.
For three years, Warren Kaneko has kept Luna Station's last paper bookshop quiet and orderly. Then a salvage crate arrives through a conservation network that should no longer exist.
Inside, one volume bears fresh handwriting dated decades in the future. The impossible inscription points toward a threatened greenhouse and the singing pipes beneath its soil beds—but not why they matter.
Index, the bookshop's cybernetically augmented seal-point Siamese, seems to know which clues matter before Warren does. To understand what the impossible book is trying to prevent, Warren must step outside the routines that have protected him from grief and trust an unlikely circle of allies before time runs out.
BOOK TWO
The Cat Who Shelved Tomorrow
Index has always known which book a reader needs. Now he’s making his selections before anyone even walks through the door.
At first, his choices lead to small confessions and puzzling clues. Then Index selects a memorial book for Orla Vasickova, a Luna Station water-systems technician who is still alive. The inscription gives her nine days to live.
Warren and his neighbors must learn what the books are trying to tell them while leaving Orla a say in her own future.
Kindle eBook releases February 28, 2027.
SERIES
The Bookshop Cat of Luna Station
On Luna Station, the right book can change tomorrow.
A planned five-book cozy science-fiction mystery series following Warren Kaneko, Index, and a growing circle of neighbors as impossible books draw them into mysteries hidden in Luna Station's past, present, and possible futures.
The series begins with The Cat Who Read Tomorrow.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
W. E. Rowan
Stories about ordinary people finding their way through extraordinary futures.
W. E. Rowan writes warm, hopeful science-fiction mysteries about ordinary people, found family, and the overlooked things that hold communities together.
When he isn't writing, he and his wife can often be found caring for a small colony of feral cats—an experience that has taught him just how much personality, trust, and quiet courage can fit inside one small creature.
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