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In District 2, children aren't raised. They're forged.
Seventeen-year-old Embrie Valhall was never meant to survive the Academy-- especially not as a "Reapkin," the daughter of a dead tribute. But after years of blood, bruises, and bone-deep hunger, she's clawed her way to the top of her class and into the final trial of the Culling: a brutal six-day test designed to crown the District's next champions for the Hunger Games.
In a world where loyalty is a weapon, mercy is weakness, and survival is the only rule that matters, Embrie will have to decide if becoming a victor means losing everything that made her human. But when a dangerous alliance with the Academy's golden boy, Cato Hadley, threatens to crack the armor she's spent her life building, Em begins to question everything she was taught to believe-- about strength, loyalty, and the Capitol itself.
Sharp as a blade. Striking as a match. Embrie's story isn't about surviving the Games-
It's about surviving what made her want them.