She came from nothing. Avery has a plan- keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why. They had everything. Now she must move into the mansion she's inherited. It's filled with secrets and codes, and the old man's surviving relatives - a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got 'their' money. Now there's only one rule- winner takes all. Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing.But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeswill revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.
MEMORIZA. CORRE. SOBREVIVE. «Bienvenido al bosque. Verás que una vez a la semana, siempre el mismo día y a la misma hora, nos llegan víveres. Una vez al mes, siempre el mismo día y a la misma hora, aparece un nuevo chico, como tú. Siempre un chico. Como ves, este lugar está cercado por muros de piedra… Has de saber que estos muros se abren por la mañana y se cierran por la noche, siempre a la hora exacta. Al otro lado se encuentra el laberinto. De noche, las puertas se cierran… y, si quieres sobrevivir, no debes estar allí para entonces». Todo sigue un orden… y, sin embargo, al día siguiente suena una alarma. Significa que ha llegado alguien más. Para asombro de todos, es una chica. Su llegada vendrá acompañada de un mensaje que cambiará las reglas del juego. ¿Y si un día abrieras los ojos y te vieses en un lugar desconocido sin saber nada más que tu nombre? Cuando Thomas despierta, se encuentra en una especie de ascensor. No recuerda qué edad tiene, quién es ni cómo es su rostro. Sólo su nombre. De pronto, el ascensor da un zarandeo y se detiene. Las puertas se abren y una multitud de rostros le recibe. «Bienvenido al Claro -dice uno de los adolescentes-. Aquí es donde vivimos. Esta es nuestra casa. Fuera está el laberinto. Yo soy Alby; él, Newt. Y tú eres el primero desde que mataron a Nick».
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.
"Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary.And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.Still, it's easy to tune that out -- until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.
