The Recurring Cast
Reading order · 3 books · 2022 to 2025 · Set in an invented world

Legends & Lattes Books in Order

Legends & Lattes is cosy fantasy: Viv, an orc warrior tired of fighting, retires to open the first coffee shop in the city of Thune, and finds that friends and good baking matter more than battles.

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Series facts

Books
3
Published
2022 to 2025
First book
Legends & Lattes
Latest
Brigands & Breadknives (2025)
Setting
Set in an invented world
Order
Story order differs from publication order

The reading order

Every Legends & Lattes book in publication order, with the story order a switch away. Choose a title for its cast and summary.

3 books · Set in an invented world
  1. 1Legends & Lattes2022With VivViv, an orc mercenary, hangs up her sword and opens a coffee shop in the city of Thune, where no one has ever tasted coffee.Buy on Amazon
  2. 2Bookshops & Bonedust2023With VivYears before the coffee shop, a young Viv is injured in battle and sent to recover in the sleepy seaside town of Murk.Buy on Amazon
  3. 3Brigands & Breadknives2025With FernFern, a bookseller who has lost her love of life, sets out to open a shop in Thune beside her friend Viv’s coffee house, and ends up on the road with an elf bounty hunter and her talking sword.Buy on Amazon

Do you need to read them in order?

Read Legends & Lattes first. Bookshops & Bonedust is a prequel set in Viv’s younger days and can be read before or after it.

Who appears in which book

The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.

Who appears in each Legends & Lattes book
BookVivFernThimble
1 Legends & LattesLLeadMMajor
2 Bookshops & BonedustLLeadMMajor
3 Brigands & Breadknives·MinorLLead·Minor

Characters in the Legends & Lattes books

4 characters from Travis Baldree’s chart, with the number of Legends & Lattes books each appears in.

CharacterBooksFirst in this series
VivOrc who opens a coffee shop3Legends & Lattes 2022
FernRatkin bookseller2Bookshops & Bonedust 2023
ThimbleRatkin baker2Legends & Lattes 2022
TandriSuccubus who works at the shop1Legends & Lattes 2022