Title: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Series: Hunger Games
Number: 4
Author: Suzanne Collins
Summary: This prequel to the original Hunger Games trilogy is set sixty-four years before the events involving Katniss Everdeen. It follows an eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow, long before he becomes the tyrannical President of Panem. As a mentor to a tribute from District 12 during the tenth annual Hunger Games, Snow finds himself at a pivotal crossroads where he must choose between the potential for love and the pursuit of power, ultimately revealing the origins of the games and his own dark ascent.