Cinders of Us: Hearts in the arena - Cato Hadley
In Panem, love is the most dangerous game of all.
Cato Hadley was raised to win, a Career from District Two, trained to hunt, to kill and to never question the Capitol's rules. His strength is his weapon, his pride his armor, his heart a battlefield he's never dared to enter.
Aimee-Rose Vale came from the quiet fields of District Ten, where survival meant endurance, not violence. She never expected to come home from the Games, only to find a kind of peace in her own ending.
But when their paths cross in the arena, something changes.
What begins as hostility burns into something forbidden, a fragile connection that defies the Capitol, the Games, and the parts of themselves they were taught to destroy.
As alliances crumble and blood stains the ground, Cato finds himself torn between the victory he's always been promised and the girl who makes him question everything he's ever fought for.
And Aimee-Rose must decide whether love is worth surviving for...
or dying with.
Because in the Hunger Games, only one rule truly matters:
no one leaves untouched.
