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Seventeen-year-old Lacey Vire has spent her entire life training to survive the Hunger Games. Raised in the brutal world of Career tributes alongside her twin brother, Sterling, she knows exactly what the Capitol expects from her: violence, loyalty, and victory. But the moment she rises into the arena, surrounded by deadly jungle ruins and blood-soaked marshes, survival becomes far more complicated than she ever imagined.
At the center of the arena stands the Stone Heart - an ancient ruined amphitheater hiding weapons, tunnels, and secrets beneath its crumbling marble walls. As alliances form and tributes begin disappearing one by one, Lacey quickly proves herself to be one of the deadliest competitors in the Games. Ruthless with her twin sickles and feared by nearly everyone around her, she becomes exactly what the Capitol wants to watch.
Except beneath the blood and spectacle, Lacey is beginning to crack.
Because surviving the Games means more than killing. It means deciding who deserves to live, who can be trusted, and whether there's anything human left inside her worth saving at all.
Meanwhile, District 4 tribute Roan is trying to survive the arena without becoming a monster himself. Clever, observant, and dangerously drawn toward the very people hunting him, Roan soon realizes the greatest threat in the arena may not be the mutts lurking in the jungle - but the girl standing at the center of it all.
In an arena where the jungle is alive, the dead haunt the sky each night, and the Capitol is always watching, only one tribute can leave alive.
But some victories destroy you long before the Games ever end.