but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.

In March 2012 Amazon announced that Collins had become the best-selling Kindle author of all time. In September 2008 Scholastic Press released The Hunger Games the first book of a trilogy by Collins. She worked on several television shows for Nickelodeon including Clarissa Explains It All The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo Little Bear and Oswald.