{"product_id":"the-giving-side-amy-wertz-9798248651214","title":"The Giving Side: A Novel of Blood, Debt, and the Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaileigh Kearney has built her life on order, logic, and the belief that everything can be explained. But when her grandmother dies, she discovers something that defies reason-a gold coin hidden beneath the body's tongue. No one in her family will speak of it. No one will admit it exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil she learns it has always been there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor generations, every Kearney has died with the same coin-each one larger than the last. As Haileigh begins to unravel her family's history, she uncovers a desperate bargain made during the Irish famine: survival in exchange for something far more intimate than blood. A piece of the heart, taken at death. A debt that has been quietly collected for two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe coin is not a symbol. It is a receipt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the truth emerges, so does the presence behind it-an ancient, patient force known only as the Giving Side. It does not hunt. It does not deceive. It offers. And it always collects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetermined to end the cycle, Haileigh does the unthinkable-taking the entire debt into herself to stop the harvest once and for all. But breaking the bargain comes at a cost. The prosperity that protected her family collapses overnight. Misfortune floods in. And inside her chest, something ancient begins to stir-not with hunger, but with awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Haileigh must live with what she has become: the final vessel of a centuries-old exchange, holding the line between survival and consumption. Because the Giving Side is still there. Still waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if she falters-even once-the taking will begin again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE GIVING SIDE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a literary dark fantasy novel about faerie bargains, generational debt, and the cost of survival in a world where prosperity is never free. For readers of \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Only Good Indians\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMexican Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Wertz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798248651214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Amy Wertz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665425371391,"sku":"9798248651214","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cdb66574-928c-4320-9330-0a4cfcbe7f04.jpg?v=1792011903","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-giving-side-amy-wertz-9798248651214","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}