{"product_id":"neon-strays-nora-veyne-9798250202732","title":"Neon Strays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a city of forty million people, the smallest problems are the ones nobody else will solve.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuno Delacroix is a pet detective. She works alone from a four-hundred-square-foot office the building's AI classifies as storage, armed with nothing but a sticker-covered drone named Gerald and a stubbornness the city hasn't managed to wear down. When your cat goes missing on the sixty-eighth floor or your hamster escapes into the ventilation system, Juno is the one you call.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut lately, the cases aren't adding up. A calico found seven floors above her home, resting in a vent that's mysteriously warmer than it should be. A golden retriever who memorized an elevator route to a floor he's never been to. A parrot repeating an address that doesn't exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething in the city's infrastructure is guiding animals upward - through hidden corridors of warmth threaded into the ventilation system, built with an engineer's precision over thirty years. And the trail leads to a rooftop garden that shouldn't exist, an old woman who's been tending it alone, and a community that doesn't know it needs saving yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Juno collects the family she never planned: a gentle veterinarian who says \u003ci\u003ewe\u003c\/i\u003e without thinking, a sixteen-year-old hacker living in a decommissioned server room, and a ramen shop owner who has been quietly feeding the neighbourhood's soul for twenty-two years. Together, they have five days to save sixty animals and the woman who rescued them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeon Strays\u003c\/i\u003e is a cozy cyberpunk mystery about found family, warm ramen, and the radical act of caring about things the world says are too small to matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers of Becky Chambers, Travis Baldree, and anyone who ever talked to a pet like it could understand them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nora Veyne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798250202732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Nora Veyne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665266479359,"sku":"9798250202732","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10003547-5066-48ce-ab68-5ddcaf5a72b9.jpg?v=1792011028","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neon-strays-nora-veyne-9798250202732","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}