BOOK ONE OF THE BOOKSHOP CAT OF LUNA STATION
The Cat Who Read Tomorrow
Some books preserve the past. This one has come to save the future.
Kindle eBook releases November 15, 2026.
Index has never knocked a book off a shelf by accident.
At Mare Imbrium Books & Tea, Luna Station’s last paper bookshop, the thirteen-pound cybernetically augmented Siamese cat has an uncanny habit of choosing the right book for the right person. His human, sixty-eight-year-old widower Warren Kaneko, has spent three years keeping the shop exactly as his late wife Naomi left it; he has kept himself safely inside its routines.
Then a salvage crate arrives under Naomi’s defunct conservation code, and Index chooses one battered volume.
Inside is a handwritten inscription in fresh fountain-pen ink on centuries-old paper.
It is dated eighty-seven years in the future.
The woman named in the message walks into the shop that same morning.
Maeve Oduya is fighting to save her family’s greenhouse from a perfectly legal corporate reclamation. The impossible inscription points to the singing pipes beneath its soil beds, but not why they matter. With time running out, Warren and Maeve must follow a trail buried in Luna Station’s past before the colony loses something its systems don’t even know how to measure.
Warren has forty years of bookbinding craft, a handful of analog tools, a growing circle of stubborn allies, and one cat who is almost certainly several steps ahead of everyone.
To save Maeve’s future, Warren may have to leave the sanctuary he has spent three years hiding inside—and start living in it again.
The Cat Who Read Tomorrow is a warm, low-violence cozy science-fiction mystery about found family, overlooked skills, a bookshop worth defending, and one cat who is right on purpose.
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The Bookshop Cat of Luna Station
The Cat Who Read Tomorrow is Book One of a planned five-book cozy science-fiction mystery series following Warren Kaneko, Index, and the impossible books that keep finding their way to Luna Station.