"The sun is strong the morning of the reaping. On any other day the District would rise with it... ...on the day of the reaping though, the sea is undisturbed." Mags Flanagan enters the arena with no intention of winning. "Sacrifice built our District, carved it from the rock of the caves and the sand of the beaches. A captain does not abandon ship, even when it sinks beneath the waves." And yet, against all odds...

Mariella River Odair. A singular star drop in the ocean. A ripple of love and loss. A wave of chance and destruction. Come back to the shore, do not fret, you do not have to be alone. Mariella's life changes when her brother volunteers himself for the 65th Hunger Games. He becomes the youngest and most renowned victor in Panem. She doesn't think life can get any worse when her brother returns a changed person. But when has life ever been smooth sailing to them. Two years later she finds her life winding down a horrifying spiral and she is reaped in the 67th Hunger Games. She is angry and she is upset as to where she has ended up, and more than anything she just wants to get back home to her brother. Mariella just hopes she does not have a similar fate bestowed upon her. But her's will not fall to be any better. All rights to Suzanna Collins and the original trilogy, she owns all the characters apart from Mariella Odair.

The Hunger Games || Clove x Cato || Clove won The Hunger Games