flowers for victors

Ilya Rozanov is from District 12, which means he was never supposed to be important.

When he volunteers for the Seventy-Fourth Hunger Games, it feels less like punishment and more like inevitability. Ilya has already lost everything the Capitol can take.

Shane Hollander has been preparing for this since he was a child.

District 2 raises its tributes like soldiers-strong, polished, obedient. Shane learned how to kill before he learned how to doubt. He walks into the Capitol knowing exactly what is expected of him, and fully intending to deliver.

He does not expect Ilya.

They should be enemies. They should destroy each other on sight. The Capitol wants blood, and the arena is built for spectacle, not mercy.

In the arena, violence is easy. Trust is not.

And needing each other might be the most lethal thing of all.