Neon Pawnshop Oaths

About this book

In present-day Chicago’s forgotten underbelly, twelve-year-old Milo Reyes wants only to stay invisible—a scrawny, freckle-dusted boy with ink-stained fingers who sketches unread comic panels while dodging school and responsibility. When his mother’s pawnshop, Neon Pawn, begins accepting glowing threads of human nature called oaths instead of jewelry, those threads twist into parasitic familiars that feed on broken family bonds and hollow out the neighborhood. Milo’s single mother Rosa, a sharp-tongued former street magician hiding their bloodline’s role as Oathbinders, desperately keeps the shop afloat. Meanwhile his estranged older sister Lila, a runaway barista, is pulled home by her own half-bound oath that has become a whispering shadow-cat. As a corporate collector closes in on the shop’s master ledger and the city unravels block by block, the Reyes family must confront the raw cost of every promise they have broken and every bond they still might mend.

Book details

Genres:

Drama, Urban Fantasy, Family Saga, Dark Contemporary

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-20

Content rating:

R