Chapter One

"When I die, I don't want to flicker from life like a flame extinguished from a candle."

It's Reaping Day again. For Elissa Swann, the Reaping of the fiftieth Hunger Games - the second Quarter Quell - will change the life she once lived in District 4. Taking her place as tribute, Elissa knows only one thing for certain. She must either die or lose the one person she truly loves.

Forty seven tributes.

Forty six enemies.

One Victor.

One Game.

Let the fiftieth Hunger Games begin.