The Hunger Games return!
The prequel takes place 64 years before the events of the first novel, during the tenth Hunger Games.
It’s fueled by ambition. It’s driven by the spirit of rivalry. But the cost of power is too high…
The morning of the Reaping arrives, when the tenth annual Hunger Games begin. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow prepares to use his only opportunity to win fame and honor. His once-powerful family is going through hard times, and their last hope is that Coriolanus will be cleverer, sharper, and more charming than his rivals—and become the mentor of the victor’s tribute.
But while his chances are slim, everything seems to be working against him…
He is given a humiliating assignment—to train a tribute girl from the poorest District 12. Now their fates are intertwined without a break, and every decision Coriolanus makes will lead either to luck or to defeat—either to triumph or to catastrophe.
When the deadly fight begins on the arena, Snow realizes he’s feeling unbearably warm emotions toward the doomed girl. Soon he’ll have to decide what matters more: the need to follow the rules, or the desire to survive at any cost?