Tales from the Territory

Its place in Legends & Lattes

Tales from the Territory is book 6 in the Legends & Lattes series. It follows Brigands & Breadknives. See the full Legends & Lattes reading order.

Viv is an orc mercenary who has spent her whole career fighting, and she's done. She retires to a city that has never heard of coffee, sinks her savings into a run-down building, and sets out to open the world's first coffee shop -- armed with nothing but a battered war-gains gem, a recipe she barely remembers, and zero customer-service experience. Travis Baldree essentially defined modern 'cozy fantasy' with this book: no world-ending stakes, no dark lords, just a found-family cast of misfits (a soft-hearted hob…