Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games 0)

It is the morning of the reaping that will begin the Tenth Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow prepares for his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to achieve glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-powerful House of Snow has fallen on hard times, and its fate rests on Coriolanus outwitting his peers in charm, wit, and strategy as the mentor of his assigned tribute. Everything is stacked against him... he has been humiliated by being assigned the tribute from District 12, and now their fates are irrevocably intertwined.