Every monster was once a man with good intentions.

He's been called a monster, a trickster, a thief of firstborns.
But the truth is far darker?and far more human.

Rumpelstiltskin was never meant to be the villain. Once, he was only a man trying to save a kingdom from a curse that devoured everything it touched. When a desperate queen made a bargain for her child, he thought he could rewrite fate. Instead, he became the story everyone feared to tell.

Now, centuries later, he speaks for himself.

In a tale of bargains and betrayal, love and loss, I Am Rumpelstiltskin reveals the man behind the legend?the protector who traded his soul for a chance to save the world, and the woman who unknowingly held the key to his undoing.

For every secret has a price.
And this time, the debt must finally be paid.