Albany Rosewood won the 60th Hunger Games at age 15. She trained for ten years for the Games, and then she volunteered. She survived the brutal Hunger Games, and then returned home a glorified victor. She was praised and admired by all.
Now, two years later, Albany has nightmares every night, and she wakes up screaming. The Games have scarred her, and to make matters worse, she now has to become a mentor. She has to mentor one young man and woman. Albany must give them as much advice as she can, or else they won't survive. She is their last hope, and if she fails, so do they.
"Geez, can't even give the girl a compliment," he joked.
"Being scary is a compliment," she asked.
"In here it is. The more scary you are the less likely that someone will jump you."
Ambriel Aaron comes from an unusual family. Her mother Aurum is what people call a "seer" because she can see things that others cannot. Things about people, about the future, and about the past. Even though District 11 is highly policed by peacekeepers, they mostly leave her family alone because no one wants all their dirty secrets to be public knowledge. Ambriel was taught to fight from the time she was 5 by her father, Joseph, because her mother knew that one day Ambriel would be in the games. Ambriel is ready for the Capitol, but the Capitol will never be ready for her!