This is Niko Vale's last chance: win the games and earn his innocence, or die.
Sentenced to life for a crime he can never take back, Niko signs up for The Severance, a brutal and horrifying series of trials where prisoners gamble everything for one impossible prize: freedom. The rules? Survive the unthinkable, betray anyone who stands in your way, and outlast the rest. The cost? Your sanity, your humanity-and maybe your soul.
Niko thinks he's ready for the blood and terror, but when he comes face-to-face with ASHER GRADY, his high school bully, the stakes shift. Neither of them knows why the other is here, but secrets have a way of surfacing in The Severance. Forced into a fragile alliance, Niko and Asher must navigate deadly betrayals, gruesome trials, and their own haunting pasts.
As the games spiral into chaos, Niko is forced to ask himself: how far is he willing to go to survive? Because winning doesn't just cost blood-it demands becoming something far worse than the crimes that brought you here.
•Book one in the Divided series•
*For fans of divergent and the hunger games*
After being unexpectedly drafted away from her home and family to become a soldier, Lib learns just what it takes to become part of her government. Through competition both friendly and unfriendly, fights, and companionship she starts to realize nothing is as it seems. Just as she hides her inner thoughts from the people around her - the people around her hide who they really are.
*Warning!* many characters die through out this series. Don't get too attached to anyone
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"He has cuts down his throat and his eyes are vivid red. Yet, despite all that, he still has a vicious smile spread across his face."
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