M. J. Gillbright

Reading Companions

Soundtracks for softer quests.

Choose a story, pour something warm, and let the music carry you from chocolate-shop mornings to the vanilla-sweet roads of the dragon realms.

Choose a playlist

The Listening Room

Where would you like to begin?

Each companion is arranged around the emotional shape of its book, with listening notes to help you find the right music for every chapter.

Chivalry & Chocolate book cover showing Dassia and Etchling outside a glowing chocolate shop

Neapolitan Ice Cream Sisters · Book One

Dassia & Etchling's Chocolate Shop Playlist

Cocoa-warm folk, whimsical fantasy, and found-family feeling—from the first turn of the shop key to the last candle burning low.

  • 30-song reading mix
  • 6 story moods
  • About 2 hours
Enter the Chocolate ShopMeet Chivalry & Chocolate
Valor & Vanilla book cover showing Princess Vera, Merp, Garrett, dragons, and a glowing cottage

Neapolitan Ice Cream Sisters · Book Two

Vera & Merp’s Vanilla Quest Playlist

Earthy folk, riverlit piano, and hearth-warm instrumentals for a princess, an impossible recipe, and the long road toward home.

  • 30-song story mix
  • 8 chapter phases
  • 12-track quiet loop
Begin the Vanilla QuestMeet Valor & Vanilla

Made for the Page

Play straight through for the full journey, or follow the story sections inside each companion to meet the mood of your current chapter.