The Second Rebellion has failed, lasting for three glorious years before Paylor went insane. The Games are back, and with them bring horrors even more sinister than even Snow had laid out for them. More blood shall be spilled, new or not.
Vesper Odair is the impossible child. Her father was Finnick Odair's own twin brother, Caspian. With three Victors in her family, four tributes, two career District bloodlines, seven years of training, and a life of luxury, she should be ready to take the Games on, full throttle. But no matter how much training you have, nothing will prepare you for the Games, especially not as a twelve year old.
As Vesper is reaped for the 100th annual Hunger Games, the stakes will rise. Four times the tributes, four girls and four boys. Two Cornucopias. Two training rooms in one facility tower. 104 interviews. The Careers are bigger and meaner, and quadrupled in numbers. Two Victors, if only from the same District. And to make things worse, the arena is rigged. Rigged just like the ones before it with a new nightmare at every corner.
Now Vesper sits with the weight of the world in the balance, hiding her biggest family secret from one of the only people she can trust the most in these Games - thirteen year old Rye Mellark.