After stumbling across her boyfriend making out with his ex, Ashley drunkenly runs away from the campsite where her friends are staying and out into the woods, falling into a ravine and passing out. When she wakes with a seriously injured foot and a headache, she's alone but not particularly scared. She's an experienced hiker and tracker and figures she'll find the group soon enough-except she doesn't, and without her pack and supplies, things begin...

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.