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The Skybridge Heist: A Near-Future Solarpunk Cozy Mystery
Paperback
Series: Solarpunk Balcony Mysteries, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 14 2025
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE HEIST THAT COULD REWRITE THE CITY'S FUTURE.
After the events of The Verdant Tower, Ari Vega is trying to keep her head down and her balcony garden alive. Verdant Tower is still buzzing with rumors, HelioVert is still watching, and Ari wants nothing more than quiet days, healthy plants, and a little emotional breathing room.
Then the city announces the Green Unity Gala.
High above the streets, on the glass-walled Skybridge that links Verdant Tower to its neighboring eco-towers, HelioVert plans to unveil a breakthrough: a prototype open-source energy module that could loosen the company's grip on the grid and give more power back to residents. For once, it looks like the corporation and the community might actually want the same thing.
Until the lights flicker, the feeds glitch-and the prototype vanishes in front of a live audience.
Within hours, the story hardens. Security footage is inconclusive. A handful of residents are quietly blamed. Ari's floor is suddenly under suspicion. And somewhere under the gala's polished speeches and zero-waste canapés, someone is rewriting the narrative about what really happened on the Skybridge.
Pulled into the chaos alongside hacker-consultant Cass and chili-growing chaos gremlin Ms. Ko, Ari follows a trail of corrupted data, back-room deals, and competing visions of what green progress should look like. The clues wind through maintenance shafts, balcony shortcuts, rooftop gardens, and the invisible pathways only service bots and building engineers ever see.
Was the heist a corporate frame-up designed to kill open-source energy? A desperate act of resistance gone wrong? Or something stranger-an inside job meant to expose HelioVert's own secrets?
As the city's newsfeeds call for tighter controls and responsible stewardship, Ari has to decide how far she's willing to go to protect her neighbors, her tower, and the fragile hope that people-not algorithms-should decide how their world is powered.
The Skybridge Heist is Book Two in the Solarpunk Balcony Mysteries: a cozy, hopeful, near-future mystery series about smart cities, stubborn gardens, found family, and quiet acts of rebellion in the cracks of a corporate-controlled eco-utopia.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Cozy mysteries with a sci-fi twist
- Hopepunk and solarpunk vibes instead of grimdark
- Smart, introverted main characters and found-family dynamics
- Stories about climate, data, and power that still believe in people
Step back onto the balcony. The city is still watching-and this time, it's missing something.
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