"The outfit only captured the people's eye. Your personality captured their hearts." Sweet little Prim, just twelve years old, has been Reaped for the Hunger Games. But there is no Katniss to volunteer- she's too late. But will this innocent little girl die in the bloodbath like everyone suspects, or will she prove that she is more dangerous than anyone ever knew?

This is the year before the Second Quarter Quell. This is the year everyone will forget because the Quarter Quell is next year. But this is the year that Barbor Klutch can't afford to be forgotten. This is his second chance, and it cannot be wasted. This is the 49th Hunger Games.

"Not even the highest-ranking officials know the contents of that box; he left it behind specially, so that even in his death he could terrify the Districts." President Knox Vine is just as cold and cruel as his predecessor; but he has to be, in order to keep control. Who will emerge victorius and who will not emerge when 24 children are Reaped... by their own District's choice?

"...Seeing Brutus kill Chaff. Killing Brutus myself." We all know what Katniss was doing when she left the others with Johanna. But what was Peeta doing? This is Peeta's story, and his first kill of the Quarter Quell.