Saffra Wilshere, a sixteen year old girl, is chosen for the 72nd Hunger Games. From District 2, she is meant to join the Career pack, not only because everyone expects her to but because it is tradition. However she doesn't want to join a group of menacing killers when she knows how to survive just fine on her own. With amazing skills in knife throwing and combat, Saffra is a force to be reckoned with. But with a terrible game comes the cost of lives. And some lives are too precious to take.