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It's been fourteen years since Jeanie Gray Baird was crowned the victor of the 60th Hunger Games-a title she never wanted, bought with blood, grief, and the loss of her people, the Covey. Now thirty-one, Jeanie is a ghost of the girl who once dared to challenge Snow on live television, kept standing by a bitter mix of obligation, sleeping pills, and habit.
By her side, as always, is Haymitch Abernathy, fellow District 12 victor, fellow broken soul, and fellow prisoner to the Capitol's cruel game. He drowns in liquor. She disappears into the haze of pills. Both are chained to the stage, forced to parade smiling lies for the world.
But everything begins to shift when Katniss Everdeen volunteers in place of her sister for the 74th Hunger Games-and Jeanie sees something in her she hasn't seen in years.
Defiance.
Fire.
Hope.
As Jeanie and Haymitch mentor Katniss and Peeta in the days leading to the Games, they see the Capitol falter-just for a moment. The girl with the bow, the boy with the bread... they might be more than just tributes. They might be the start of something bigger.
Haunted by the past, clinging to slivers of faith, Jeanie begins to wonder:
What if Katniss is the one?
What if the song doesn't end in death this time?
What if the sun really doesn't rise on the Reaping again?
Because revolutions don't start with cannons.
They start with a girl who remembers how to sing.