❝ it will be our swan song. ❞ ➸ vasilisa walker is the eldest daughter of the wealthy and prestigious walker family, one of the oldest elite families of the capitol. she is a woman of sophistication, donning diamonds, pearls, and silk as fair as winter snow. in her final year at the academy, she, alongside twenty-three of her peers, are selected to be mentors for the tenth annual hunger games. with the bloodshed and brutality of the arena, vasilisa begins to understand the dark side of humanity, and the truth that lies beneath the hearts of those she holds most dear.

❝ he's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds.❞ ➸ mary jane thomas despises the east coast, but princeton university is an educational prospect she cannot refuse. she has great ambitions to become an author one day, an aspiration her overbearing father shuns. nineteen and stressed with the burden of academia, mary figures she has no time to spare for romance. that is until she meets dr. james wilson, head of oncology at princeton-plainsboro teaching hospital.