{"product_id":"gutes-mzodchen-jared-hungerford-9798266891074","title":"Gutes Mädchen: A Gothic Fairy Tale of Surrender and the Quiet Price of Innocence","description":"\u003cb\u003eA nameless devil, a single spoken name, and a bargain whose price is innocence - a dark, urgent fairy tale of possession and the surprising cost of being made whole.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a ruined chapel at the forest's edge a nameless stranger arrives, velvet-clad and silver-tongued. A curious maiden, newly come of age, asks the single question that changes everything: what shall I call you? In answering, she gives him a name - Fuzzebär - and in the same breath unwittingly binds his last untaken thing, his innocence, into her keeping. He claims her in return with a single brand: \u003ci\u003egutes Mädchen\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor twenty years he roams palaces and brothels, tasting every pleasure and discovering only an expanding hollow. She waits at the ruin, carrying his stolen bright thing inside her, patient and fierce. When the velvet man finally returns, the bargain unspools with terrible tenderness: her surrender is absolute, and the innocence she alone guards is the only thing that can make him whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart gothic fable, part mythic romance, G\u003ci\u003eutes Mädchen\u003c\/i\u003e explores the strange symmetry of power and dependence - a novelette about names that bind, bargains that never really end, and what it costs two people to keep one another. For readers of dark fairy tales and adult Gothic fables.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCONTENT WARNING: Adult themes and psychological intensity; contains consensual adult intimacy and moral ambiguity. Recommended for mature readers.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jared Hungerford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798266891074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12d","brand":"Jared Hungerford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49170419384575,"sku":"9798266891074","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gutes-mzodchen-jared-hungerford-9798266891074","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}