In The Pines - Cato Hadley

Seventeen-year-old Clementine River March of District 12 lives quietly on the edge of invisibility, surviving the Seam, the woods beyond the fence, and a family built on silence. With a mother who refuses to name her father and a younger sister to protect, she keeps her head down-until her final reaping year changes everything.

Thrown into the Hunger Games, she becomes a competitor Cato of District 2 cannot ignore. Fierce, controlled, and raised to win, Cato sees her as something unpredictable in an arena meant to be conquered. What begins as calculation turns into fixation-because Clementine doesn't play the Games the way she's supposed to, and Cato has never been good at ignoring a challenge.

In a place built to break people, they become each other's most dangerous distraction

**I do not own the Hunger Games or the characters created by Suzanne Collins, I only own my own characters.**