The Weight of the Tide

In District 4, the sea decides who survives. The Capitol decides who dies.

Maris Tidewell has spent her entire life trying to keep her younger brother alive. Every crab pot hauled from the ocean, every net mended before sunrise, every coin earned has gone toward one goal: giving him a future she never expected to have herself.

When Reaping Day arrives, Maris makes a choice no one sees coming.

She volunteers.

But in District 4, volunteering is only the beginning.

Bound by an old tradition sanctioned by the Capitol, Maris must first survive the Bell Dive, a brutal trial against the district's strongest volunteer, before earning the right to enter the Hunger Games. Thrust into a world of mentors, stylists, interviews, alliances, and impossible choices, she finds herself carrying far more than her own survival.

Because every decision she makes in the arena echoes back to the boy waiting on the shore.

As rebellion quietly begins to stir beneath Panem's surface, Maris discovers that winning the Games may cost more than losing them ever could.

Some people fight for glory.

Maris fights because going home empty-handed was never an option.