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Vials and Tribulations


A GameLit & LitRPG Novel


Book 3 of the Pangea Online Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Tournament,
  • Mentor-Student,
  • Underdog
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Reluctant mentors pulled back into high-stakes gaming tournaments
  • Underdog stories rooted in found family and second chances
Publisher Description

Pangea Online invites you to participate in the first-ever Pro-Am Tournament! Mentor the most promising talent of the future while cementing your status as one of the greats! Don't miss the biggest, most innovative tournament in gaming history!

Esil is content with his quiet life beta testing new game worlds, so he doesn't give the invitation a second thought. Having every detail of his life scrutinized while pursuing gold and glory are ambitions of the past, and mentoring is at the bottom of his to-do list. That all changes when Dean, a teenager from the same orphanage where Esil grew up, begs for help.

This is a life-changing opportunity for a kid from the Boxes. So when every other former champion refuses to take a chance on Dean, Esil must make a choice. Either step into the spotlight he grew to hate or abandon Dean to a life in the mines.

Pick up the final installment of this litRPG series today!

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I grew up in a small town in rural South Carolina. I think it shaped me in a lot of ways and gave me an appreciation for the simpler things in life.

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