Death of the Weakest. Survival Duology, #2

In a world where survival is entertainment and weakness is a death sentence, Emilia Knox has learned one rule above all: stay useful, or don't survive at all. Working behind the scenes for the ruthless architect Kade Wyatt, Emilia helps design the very trials that decide who lives and who dies. Every puzzle, every trap, every calculated cruelty serves a single purpose, to maintain control over a system built on fear.
And for Emilia, the stakes are personal. As long as she remains valuable, her younger sister Lily is kept safe from the games. But control is an illusion. When a routine trial spirals into chaos, Emilia is thrust from observer to participant, forced to face the brutal reality of the system she helped create. Surrounded by desperate players, shifting alliances, and impossible choices, she begins to see the cracks in Kade's carefully constructed world, and her own role in sustaining it.
As the final installment of the Survival Duology, The Death of the Weakest raises the stakes to their breaking point. With Lily's life hanging in the balance and the truth behind the trials threatening to unravel everything, Emilia must decide how far she's willing to go, not just to survive, but to end the game entirely. Because in a world built on sacrificing the weak, the greatest act of defiance might be refusing to play at all.