Three years after the 10th Hunger Games, Coriolanus Snow has learned that attachment is dangerous, vulnerability is weakness, and control is survival. Then Athena Seraphine walks into his classroom. Beautiful, intelligent, and freshly celebrated after mentoring the victor of the 13th Hunger Games, Athena is exactly the kind of distraction Coriolanus refuses to indulge in — especially when she becomes his student. Unfortunately for him, Athena seems just as intrigued by him as he is determined to remain unaffected by her.