Connor, a poor teenage boy in a family of eight, receives a gift from his parents on a special holiday: a chance to be entered into a Television competition called 'The Run'. It will take stregnth, endurance, and luck for Connor to come even close to winning. Will he take home the big money prize?

A sixteen year old boy gets reaped into the hunger games. He's a swimmer but the arena is a dry, barren, desert. The odds are stacked against him. Will he survive? Probably not.

A boy named Edge lives in a community called heron with four 'points' (villages/mini-civilizations). They battle all the time. His parents are the king and queen of the Ice Kingdom.