The Wings That Burned

The Wings That Burned

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Book one of the 'Silent Rebellion Saga' In the coal-dusted alleys of District 12, twelve-year-old Lyra Ember Finch lives quietly in the shadows-until her name is called at the Reaping. Thrust into the brutal spectacle of the 72nd Hunger Games, Lyra must rely on instincts honed from a life of silence, stealth, and survival. Paired with eighteen-year-old Tobin Slade, a boy driven by honor and heartbreak, the two must navigate deadly alliances, ruthless opponents, and the haunting weight of their pasts. As the Capitol watches with glittering eyes, Lyra becomes something unexpected-not just a tribute, but a symbol of quiet defiance and calculated fire. But survival comes at a cost, and the Games will burn away everything she thought she was. In a world where hope is dangerous and victory comes in blood, can a girl who never wanted to be seen learn to fight-and to live?
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Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

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