{"product_id":"b0hdj5gg7c","title":"The Overpowered Village Cook: A Cozy Slice-of-Life Crafting LitRPG (The Copper Ladle Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e[Provisioner]. The most useless class in the kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOdric Brannon spent nine years feeding a mercenary company that no longer exists. He can gut a deer in the dark, stretch a sack of barley across forty men, and cook a decent stew standing in the rain. None of that is a combat skill. The guild clerks told him so. Twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo he takes his last pay, walks four days east, and buys the burned-out kitchen behind the market square in Bramblecote. Population two hundred. One well. No inn worth the name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen he cooks his first meal for someone who is hungry, and the system says something it has never said to anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[Nourished. Permanent.]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery plate he serves makes the eater a little better, and it never wears off. Every mouth he feeds widens his own pool. There is no cap. There is no ceiling. There is not even a leveling path written down, because nobody in four hundred years has bothered to take the class far enough to find one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat Odric has instead is a cold stove, a chimney full of birds, a cracked bake oven, and a village that has not eaten properly since the old cook died.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe also has, by the end of the first month: a hill-country maltster who moves her brewing kettles into his back room without asking, a spice trader off the salt road who was only stopping for one night, a former company medic who followed him east and will not say why, and a grey goose with strong opinions about the placement of the salt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBramblecote does not need a hero. It needs somebody to keep the fire lit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Denhold Gattis is buying every sack of grain and barrel of salt between the valley and the coast, his men are on the road to make sure nobody sells past him, and the first frost is eleven weeks out. Gattis thinks a village that cannot feed itself will sell him the valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe has never had to eat his own cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of  Legends \u0026amp; Lattes ,  Beware of Chicken ,  The Wandering Inn , and  Arcane Chef . A warm, low-stakes cozy LitRPG about crafting, feeding people, and building a household one stray at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCozy Fantasy • Slice of Life • Crafting LitRPG • OP MC • Uncapped Progression • Village Life • Found Family • Slow-Burn Romance • Low Stakes • Male Lead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBook 1 tells a complete story and ends where it should. No cliffhangers. Warm and affectionate throughout, with one gentle slow-burn thread; no explicit content. No harem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead free in Kindle Unlimited.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52819541197016,"sku":"YSL34461","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/817eIce9blL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793090892","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0hdj5gg7c","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}