After Snow Falls

The Capitol has fallen and all of President Snow's supporters have scattered. Many await their fate at the hands of an angry public or the scheming of their past colleagues. But Charasija Snow has a different fate. As the granddaughter of the late President Snow, the most hated man in the country, her parents had but two choices. One, let her share in their death and end the family line or two, send her away with a new face, new identity and nowhere to return home to. If she could go back she might have asked them to choose the first. But no one gave her a choice.

Charasija is given the name Winter and sent to grow up in an orphanage alongside other Capitol children. But without any real love or family Winter sees no reason to care about anything, much less her lessons and future. At 18 now she is kicked out of the orphanage with only one possible job open to her, work in the newly opened coal mines in what was once district 12. The New Panem needs coal faster than they can update essential machinery to replace it, so Winter is sent with other fellow aged out orphans to work in the coal mines. This is her last chance to build a life for herself before she becomes homeless on the streets. What will life be like for the twisted and complicated young woman? And what will happen when she sees the controversial inhabitants of that town? Namely, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark.