Prologue: The Mocking Jay

Jay Tipper has done the impossible. At the age of seventeen he has won the 25th Hunger Games, a first ever for his hometown of District 12. But the cost of winning was far more than just violence. For him, it meant losing a piece of his humanity forever.

As Jay remembers his Games and tries to protect his family from the tyranny of the Capitol, he is forced again and again to make impossible choices. Choices that are the difference between humanity and depravity. Choices that mean life and death. Choices that will either destroy his entire being or his entire family.

Choices that mean the Hanging Tree.