He died saving a kitten. The cat goddess paid him back by maxing the best stat in his next life...

Danny Ableton spent his last night on Earth dreaming of taking over Jimmy's Bar—until a stray black kitten and a runaway truck cut that plan short. He wakes up face-to-face with a mischievous cat goddess who offers him a second chance at life. A second chance, specifically, in the world of Tivalen, along with a single boon. Danny doesn't ask for superpowers, strength, magic, or wealth. He asks for a change in his luck. The goddess might have gone a little overboard.

Now, dropped into a fantasy world he barely understands, Danny has scarcely brushed the dirt off his knees before he meets Daisy, a sweet, scatterbrained puppy girl with more enthusiasm than sense. Together, they tangle with a monster that would have ended a normal man. By nightfall, due to his crazy Luck stat, he's somehow inherited the Elfheart Inn from a frazzled owner desperate to save his marriage, leaving Danny in charge of a packed house, a serene dark elf named Vivian who runs circles around him, and a town built on the edge of a dungeon that nobody has managed to clear.

Between training Daisy to focus, learning the ropes from Vivian, charming a sharp-tongued demon mage with a research problem, and figuring out how his stat screen works, Danny has his hands full. But every dungeon has a bottom, every coin has two sides, and the strange gold piece in his pocket that doesn't match any currency in Tivalen might be hinting that his arrival wasn't quite as random as it seems.

Will Danny build the tavern of his dreams in a world that's nothing like home? Can the luckiest upstart adventurer in Tivalen survive a dungeon designed to kill seasoned heroes? And just how big is this group of monster girl groupies going to get before he stops being surprised by it?

One coin flip away from glory. One bad roll away from disaster. Welcome to Tivalen.