Welcome to the Cocoa Café Chronicles-where whimsy meets wonder and every sip of story is brewed with magic.You've just inherited a cocoa café nestled in a wind-whipped harbor village. There's barely time to find the sugar jar before something goes terribly, deliciously wrong.What happens next? Twelve striking storytellers from the LegendFiction community lean in-each spinning their own riotous, heartfelt, and cocoa-drenched tale of what unfolds when fate, fantasy, and a steaming mug collide.Inside: A young shop owner with a dying hearth rune takes on a stray young woman with more power than he realizes.An aging elf recounts her escapades outwitting a chocolate-drunken fairy festival.An elderly knight with a screw or two loose is transported to the future and valiantly saves a kingdom-er, cocoa shop.A teenage girl living in a floating space colony welcomes some rough-on-the-run-miners into her family's chocolate bar. Warm drinks on her.A new inheritor finds that her late uncle had not just debts but pirate debts.A young man risks his life to rescue his younger brother from the Governor's Arena.A weary cat scrounges for life-and love-in the underbelly of a down-on-its-luck harbor.Two singers find a once-in-a-lifetime love by the seaside.Two chaotic brothers make a myriad of zany attempts at evading the notorious, diminutive Darius K. Truffle.A young human resists siren songs to protect a helpless customer.A con artist schemes his suspicious uncle into buying an abandoned cocoa café.The Prince of Death house-flips the rotting-away chocolate tavern that once belonged to his mortal mother.Come for the cocoa. Stay for the stardust, the soul, and the storytelling.The mugs are warm. The tales are wilder than you expect.Welcome to the café. We saved you a seat.Edited by Gabriella Batel.