Twins reborn from ashes - a story of reminiscence and pain...

[Watty Awards Winner 2013] Traumatized by her brother's death, Raven Verona desperately wants to escape her past. But when she is chosen for the 41st Hunger Games, that becomes impossible. An unwanted admirer. A true soul mate. 23 enemies. Let the Games begin... (Note. All the way through this book and the sequel, The Chamber, it says that this is the 31st Games. I'm changing it to 41st because it plays a role in the third book. :D Also, if you like this, there is two more books to follow, The Chamber and Battleborn)

Ever since the Kryser Trials, the Royal Picking has been a waited for event. Every ten years, thirty girls and thirty boys , ages sixteen through twenty, are randomly chosen from the villages to win a chance to be Queen and King of Akontis. The reign of the past Queen and King is up and the Tenth Royal Picking has begun. In the Stifles, Xiernia, an eighteen year old girl, finds herself trying to decide if she wants to be Queen or not, though it isn't even up to her. It isn't up to anyone. Do you want to be Queen?