The Perilous Cookbook of the Moonlit Bazaar: Recipes to Cook the Sun Back into the Sky

**The sun has fallen. Now, one chef must cook it back into the sky.**

Aethel, a city once vibrant with sunlight, now exists in a perpetual twilight. Hope dwindles like a dying ember as its citizens navigate a world cloaked in an eternal dusk. Amara Quivelle, a chef with extraordinary talent, stumbles upon an ancient cookbook written in a celestial language, rumored to hold the power to reignite the sky. Within its pages lie recipes that promise to summon fragments of sunlight, but each demands an impossible ingredient, plunging Amara into a treacherous quest through the heart of the Moonlit Bazaar.

The Bazaar, a labyrinthine marketplace where dreams are currency and whispers hold power, becomes Amara’s hunting ground. Here, she encounters Lysandra, a fortune teller whose eyes shimmer with the secrets of vanished stars, and Elias Thorne, a craftsman who sculpts memories from moonstone, each offering cryptic clues and unlikely alliances. But the Bazaar also harbors Silas Blackwood, a purveyor of forgotten dreams whose motives remain shrouded in ambiguity, and the ominous Moonlit Syndicate, who see Amara’s quest as a threat to their shadowy reign.

Amara’s journey for ingredients takes her to the desolate Shadowlands in pursuit of a dragon’s tear, and into the Bazaar's hidden corners where she must capture the stolen laughter of a shadow child. Each ingredient comes at a cost, forcing her to confront the ethical implications of her quest and delve into the bittersweet tang of her own lost love. As she progresses, the Syndicate, led by the chillingly composed Valerius, tightens its grip, their whispers weaving a web of deceit and danger around Amara.

As Amara cooks, her culinary skills become a weapon against the encroaching darkness. Each dish—a fiery bisque infused with a dragon's tear, shimmering mooncakes imbued with a child's fleeting joy, a celestial tart laced with the bittersweet memory of lost love—becomes a beacon of hope, a testament to her growing power. But the final recipe, the one to reignite the sun, demands the ultimate sacrifice: a piece of Amara's own soul.

Under the oppressive darkness of the Bazaar’s Grand Eclipse, a celestial event that empowers the Syndicate and reveals a hidden truth about Amara's lineage, she must face Valerius in a final confrontation. The choice she faces is agonizing: fulfill her destiny and restore the sun, or protect her essence and condemn Aethel to eternal twilight. The aroma of hope and despair mingles in the twilight air as Amara prepares to cook the sun back into the sky. Will the light return? And at what cost?

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Release date

Ebook: 16 January 2025