The Weight of Her Name

Hope Vale grew up in District 14-the place the Capital forgot. She learned hunger before language, loss before love, fear before childhood. Her father, Alden Vale, once won the Games as a boy from District 1. He traded a life of luxury for the woman he loved... and lost everything when she died.

Now he has only one mission:
keep Hope and her little brother Eli alive.

For twenty-one years, Hope perfected the art of invisibility. She kept her head down. Hid her strength. Breathed quietly. Lived quietly. Survived quietly.

Until the day her name was pulled.

Thrown into the Capital One Games-an arena that shifts biomes like a living nightmare-Hope must fight enemies, predators, storms, and the expectations of an entire nation that has already written her off.

But Hope isn't fighting for glory.
She's fighting for Eli.
For her father.
For the right to choose her own fate in a world designed to steal it.

And in the shadows of the Dome...
sometimes the smallest spark can burn the whole system down.