Everyone dies, someday and somehow. Sixteen year old Allie is dying of cancer. More than anything, she wants to be a normal teenager. But pretending is exhausting and the lies pile up. With a chance at first love and true friends, Allie must choose between maintaining the pretence or risking everything with the truth. Can Allie open her heart and embrace love? If you liked 'The Fault in Our Stars' by John Green or 'A Walk to Remember' by Nicholas Sparks, you'll love Awakening to Life.

40 years after the Hunger Games are over, President Fallon brings them back. Elissa and Will Are the children of Peeta and Katniss. They both are being sent off into the arena, but before the hunger games even begin, there are uncontrollable obstacles. Elissa faces life or death in all aspects and soon afterwards is sent off into the arena alone. There she makes an alliance with Kal, who doesn't reveal his true self in order to save her. Throughout everything, nobody really knows what is to come of Elissa. Can she win the Hunger Games and defend her title of being the daughter of the girl on fire, or will she crumble? Will she ever get all the answers she's being anxious to find? But what she learns on later, is that the real games aren't played in the arena.