Viv and Tandri's success garners unwanted attention from the Madrigal, whose thugs run the local protection racket, and Viv's ex-colleague Fennus, who suspects the true nature of the seemingly modest share she claimed of the Scalvert's treasure. Subsequent recruits include ratkin Thimble, a baker of genius, hesitant would-be bard Pendry, who blossoms into an entertainer, and volunteer watch beast Amity the dire-cat.Īfter a slow start, the Legends & Lattes coffee shop becomes highly popular in Thune, with such colorful regulars among the clientele as witch Laney, student Hemmington, and magician gnome Durias, who appears to have a peculiar relationship with time. She recruits hob carpenter Calamity (Cal) to help her get the property in shape, and artistic succubus Tandri as a work-mate with whom to open and run the business. Purchasing an abandoned stable in the town of Thune, Viv buries the stone inside and sets about realizing her dream. Claiming as her sole share of the treasure the Scalvert's Stone the monster has grown in its skull, Viv quits the group.Ī Scalvert's Stone is reputed to bring fortune to its owner. The band's latest foray, against a Scalvert Queen, a spider-like monster and hoarder of treasure, offers her the opportunity. Viv dreams of retiring from adventure and opening a coffee shop, in preference to the more customary Orc retirement plan of dying in battle. Orc swordswoman and mercenary Viv has long made a rough living as one of a band of adventurers-dandyish elf Fennus, dwarf Roon, stone-fey Taivus, and gnome Gallina. The novel was nominated for the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy and the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Novel. The second edition includes an added prequel story, "Pages to Fill: A Legends & Lattes Story." It was first published in trade paperback and ebook by Cryptid Press in February, 2022 a second edition was issued in trade paperback by Tor Books in November of the same year, with the first British edition issued in hardcover and ebook by Tor UK in the same month. Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes is a fantasy novel written by American author Travis Baldree.
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