The Victors | ✓

Cornelia has spent nearly eight years in a prison cell for a crime she too young to knowingly commit. And unlike the others like her, it is a punishment she has accepted.
But when Lia is dragged from the cell to the old Training Center along a distant boulevard in the city she had once been at the top of, acceptance is more difficult to bear. Eight years of knowing that she would die, only to be sentenced to death by Hunger Games, as so many before her had, was not an easy pill to swallow. Especially when the other were ruthless and bloodthirsty after watching the Rebellion take their families. Especially when they find out that one of them is the granddaughter of the man too weak to stop the fire from catching. Especially when they realize that one is only a sheep in wolf's clothing...
Even the guidance of her designated mentor isn't helpful. What can one expect from an alcoholic that is a mere shadow of what he once was and one that tries to keep her from the mentor that actually wants to help her? And what choice is there, when the one whose role is forbidden is more insistent and deadly than anyone she has ever known?
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