The Red Tide | Finnick Odair

For sixteen-year-old Cordelia Vance, the rules of District 4 were simple:

Swim hard, mend the nets, and never look a Peacekeeper in the eye. She already knew the devastating cost of the Capitol's stage; she had watched her cousin, Annie Cresta, return from the arena as a fractured ghost. Cordelia never planned on following her footsteps. But an August birthday makes her a legal anomaly-sixteen on paper, but carrying the lethal precision of a true District 4 Career.

When her name is pulled for the 73rd Hunger Games, the burden of survival shifts to Finnick Odair. As her mentor, he must teach her how to charm the sponsors who want to own her and blooden the hands she used to weave fishing lines.

Forced into an arena where the waters run red, Cordelia must outsmart the older Careers and survive the Capitol's cruelest traps. Because she isn't just fighting to make it back to the ocean-she's fighting to see her seventeenth birthday.

Disclaimer: This story is a work of fanfiction based on The Hunger Games universe, characters, and lore created by Suzanne Collins. I do not own the rights to the original trilogy, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, or any canon characters mentioned (such as Finnick Odair, Annie Cresta, or President Snow). All rights belong to Scholastic, Lionsgate, and the original author.

Cordelia Vance, her specific family history, the arena design, and the events of the 73rd Annual Hunger Games are my own original creations.

Kathryn Newton is used purely as a visual face claim for the character of Cordelia and is in no way associated with this story. Please do not copy or redistribute my original character or plotlines without permission.