Press kit for Valor & Vanilla by M. J. Gillbright — Book Two of the Neapolitan Ice Cream Sisters series.
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| Title | Valor & Vanilla |
|---|---|
| Author | M. J. Gillbright |
| Series | Neapolitan Ice Cream Sisters, Book 2 |
| Genre | Cozy Fantasy |
| Publisher | Positopian Publishing |
| Release | July 23, 2026 (Available now) |
| ASIN | B0DM56XRTW |
| Amazon | amzn.to/4eGDFmk → amazon.com/dp/B0DM56XRTW |
| Book page | mjgillbright.com/books/valor-and-vanilla |
| Wide / ISBN / price / word count | ISBN-13 979-8-89360-014-8 (ebook). $4.99 Kindle. Kindle only, 419 pages. Also in Kindle Unlimited (authors confirmed 2026-08-15). Word count not listed. No wide links. |
A cozy fantasy adventure of quests, cookies, retired royalty, and courage warm enough to share.
Princess Vera has spent years as the spare: smiled at, dressed up, and gracefully sidelined. When a strange affliction called the Numbness begins creeping through the kingdoms and dragon realms, she volunteers for the kind of quest no one expected from retired royalty. To recover the ingredients for a legendary cure, she will need a brave heart, good company, a better recipe, and the kind of ordinary tenderness that can become extraordinary magic.
Princess Vera has spent years performing whatever role the kingdom required: spare heir, ceremonial stand-in, keeper of posture, polisher of impossible standards. When her family is finally reunited, freedom arrives without an itinerary, which is deeply rude of freedom. Then the Numbness begins stealing warmth and presence from the dragon realms, threatening Dassia, Etchling, and every fragile bond the sisters have only just begun to mend.
The cure is said to be hidden in a recipe: egg, flour, sugar, butter, and the kind of magic that cannot be commanded by titles alone. Vera sets out with a far-too-charming guard named Garrett, a mysterious cat-dragon-raccoon named Merp, an ancient dragon’s warnings, and considerably more luggage than destiny strictly requested. Along the way, a judgmental cottage insists she learn to bake, dragon kingdoms offer ingredients through customs no court manual could survive, and Vera discovers that cookies are distressingly immune to royal authority.
Expect sacred eggs, crystal roads sweet enough to tempt questionable licking, butter-tea in meadows where no one is in a hurry, slow-burn tenderness, and a princess learning that valor may look less like a grand declaration than showing up warm-handed, again and again, for the people and creatures who need her.
Standalone-friendly: new readers can start with Vera. Returning readers will catch extra echoes from Dassia, Etchling, and Cozyhood Commons.