The Game: Blood Stained Mahogany (The Game, #3) (ePub)

Mia Alexander was born into a life of slavery, a daughter of the Cave home to the Game, one of the most brutal sporting events conceived. The Game is a playground of horror and the people of the Cave, both those born there, those kidnapped and taken there, and those who volunteer for the debauchery, participate in a modern-day rendition of the coliseum of ancient Rome. They must compete in acts of murder, rape, and self-mutilation for the amusement of an unseen, wealthy elite. Contestants must survive the Game five times to earn not just their freedom from the Game, but a promised life of luxury. Losers become the evening meal. 

Mia struggles to stay a child in a world where violence is not only accepted but cheered, where cannibalism is survival, brutality is affection, and living another day is at the expense of his own soul. She envisions nothing for her life except attempting the Game, never knowing there is anything else but the Cave. When she's abruptly taken from the Game, taken from her mother and everything she knows, she is introduced to a world where, for the briefest of movements, she tastes true freedom. 

But the freedom is short-lived and she's soon thrust into the world of the Court, the secret society that has run the Game for the last five hundred years. Mia is adopted by the Queen of the Game and groomed to takeover 

Mia, however, is a child of the Cave. The Game pulses in her blood. When she runs afoul of her adoptive mother she is thrust back into the world of the Game. This time, however, she is not a child who will be rescued. This time she must survive the Game on her own or perish to its evils. And this time there is more than just the Game working against her.