For The Ones We Leave Behind

Ariadne Wolfsbane has spent ten years training for the Ascension, a brutal competition where twenty-four volunteers enter and one walks out. Her brother is dying in the mines. Her family has nothing. She doesn't have a choice.

The arena is designed to kill. The challenges are unforgiving. The Veridian Circle watches from above, betting on who will fall next. Ariadne survives. She makes allies. She makes enemies. She does what she has to do.

But the arena doesn't end when the challenges stop. She has to figure out who to trust, what to hold onto, and how far she's willing to go.

And when she realizes that winning might cost more than she's willing to pay, she has to decide what she's actually fighting for.