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When Life Gives You Legends
A Fantasy Novel by Luna Ryder
Book 1 of the Tilda Quickthatch Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Comic Fantasy,
- Quest Fantasy,
- Necromancy,
- Reluctant Hero,
- Found Family
This book is for you if you're into...
- Retired heroes dragged back into adventure by stubborn teens
- Halfling rogues hiding big secrets in sleepy towns
- Quests sparked by stolen artifacts and impossible bargains
Not your average fantasy. Not your average hero...
Tilda Quickthatch gave up adventuring years ago and retired to small-town Briarhaven as the local tavern wench. But now the past she's worked so hard to keep hidden has come calling for her. Its messengers? A group of misfit teens who insist she train them to pick up her mantle... or else.
But what starts as simple "roll" play soon turns deadly when their antics attract the attention of a fearsome necromancer who never gave up searching for Tilda. He swoops in with a sinister offer: exchange the powerful artifact she stole nearly a decade ago for her former partner's life.
Now it seems this halfling rogue-turned-barkeep has no choice but to dust off her daggers, gather her pity of a party, and set out on her highest stake quest yet. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go right?!
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