Neapolitan Ice Cream Sisters
Chivalry & Chocolate
A retired knight, a dramatic dragon, and a chocolate shop brave enough to become home.
Dassia Temperton has spent years surviving behind borrowed armor. When a quest sends her toward a dragon who would much rather discuss chocolate than be slain, survival becomes friendship, business partnership, and the first warm room where Dassia might be expected exactly as she is. With a bookshop mage, a village full of inconvenient kindness, and a dragon with very firm snack opinions, Chivalry & Chocolate is cozy fantasy about found family, softening without surrendering, and the courage of letting yourself be loved.
Inside the Story
What waits by this hearth.
A Taste From the Chocolate Shop
Dassia Temperton begins the book locked inside borrowed armor and a borrowed name, trying to survive knighthood without letting anyone notice how badly the role fits. The quest that should prove her as Sir Dassian sends her toward a dragon cave instead, where Etchling would much rather discuss chocolate than behave like a monster.
Their first bargain is not heroic in the traditional sense: it is suspicious, funny, snack-motivated, and the first crack in the wall Dassia has kept around herself for years. By the time the story reaches Cozyhood Commons, the quest has become a chocolate shop, a chosen family, and a chance for Dassia to learn that taking off the armor may be harder than wearing it.
Expect truffle theft, dragon theatrics, village meddling, cocoa-scented courage, and Quinn Fablewick, a bookshop mage whose patience and perceptive eyes are inconvenient in all the most necessary ways.
For Readers
Reader Treats
Start with Dassia & Etchling's Chocolate Shop Playlist, a 30-song reading companion arranged by story mood. It follows the book from tense knightly beginnings through cocoa-scented mischief, found-family tenderness, and the kind of cozy courage that makes a room feel safe enough to be honest.
For book clubs and buddy reads, Chivalry & Chocolate opens especially rich conversations about names, armor, gender, chosen family, food as care, and the difference between being admired and being truly known. Readers who want more behind the scenes can pair the book with dispatches on cozy worldbuilding, Etchling's creation, and why low-stakes fantasy can still feel brave.
Retailers & Reader Extras
Find your copy.
Available now in eBook, paperback, and hardcover. Choose your favorite bookseller, then linger with the playlist, cozy dispatches, and book-club sparks gathered for readers who want one more cup of cocoa in Cozyhood Commons.