Ambition fuels it. He is spurred on by a competitive spirit. But the price of power is too high... Harvest morning comes when the Tenth Hunger Games start. At the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow prepares to use his one opportunity to gain fame and honor. His once powerful family is going through difficult times, and their last hope is that Coriolanus will be trickier, smarter and more charming than rivals and will become the mentor of the victorious tribute. But so far his chances are negligible, and everything is going against him... He is given a humiliating task - to train a tribute girl from the poorest District-12. Now their fates are intertwined inextricably - and every decision made by Coriolanus will lead to either luck or defeat. Either to triumph or to disaster. When a deadly battle begins in the arena, Snow realizes that he has unacceptably warm feelings for the doomed girl. Soon he will have to decide what is more important: the need to follow the rules or the desire to survive at any cost?