{"product_id":"the-tribute-mel-dove-9798296452139","title":"The Tribute: virgin spanked, caned, birched, humiliated and publicly deflowered","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Tribute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dark tribal erotic novella\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeace was not signed with ink. It was written into skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the treaty is sealed, Mira, an 18 year old virgin, is handed over in silence. Taken into the heart of the Darnai settlement, she is prepared with oil and obedience. For four nights she must submit to four different elders, each bound by tradition to test her body, to punish her flesh, to leave marks that speak what words cannot. On the fifth, she will be displayed naked before the tribe, her virginity publicly taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no illusion of mercy. She is flogged until her legs shake, stretched open and used while the firelight watches. Stripped before strangers, spanked by boys barely older than herself, covered in the seed of those who never once speak her name-each act is sanctioned and celebrated. Her virginity is preserved for the final night, though everything else is taken. And even then, she is not spared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet amid the ritual cruelty, something unexpected begins to stir. In the hut where she is meant to recover-where salves are applied and tears allowed to fall-Mira finds a different touch. Sela, the tribe's apothecary, tends to her with a quiet patience that unsettles more than the lash. Their bodies learn each other slowly, and a beautiful love blossoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tribute\u003c\/i\u003e is a graphic, psychologically intimate descent into ritual degradation, forced endurance, and the aching bloom of queer sanctuary. A story of obedience sharpened by shame, of softness carved into pain, of a girl undone and remade beneath the eyes of a tribe that does not blink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eritual spanking, public nudity, caning, non-consensual oral and anal sex, semen marking, virgin defloration, lesbian tenderness, and explicit M\/F and F\/F content. For adult readers (18+) only.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mel Dove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798296452139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d","brand":"Mel Dove","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47244488179967,"sku":"9798296452139","price":7.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3183c05-3ad2-434c-b973-a925bdc34149.jpg?v=1758135860","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tribute-mel-dove-9798296452139","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}