rick riordan · camp half-blood · demigods · ensemble cast · mythology · action adventure · magic · teamwork · search party
The dying afternoon light filtered through the dusty windows of Westover High, stretching long, skeletal shadows across the scuffed linoleum floor. The air carried the stale ghosts of pizza and industrial cleaner, underscored by the distant echo of slamming lockers and student chatter. In the courtyard, a knot of teenagers stood apart from the flow—a boy with sea-storm eyes, another with a bronze arm catching the last of the sun, a girl with coiled curls who watched the world like a chessboard. They weren't here for detention. They were here on Chiron's orders. The child of Zeus and Hera—a demigod born from an impossible union. You didn't know it yet, but the King and Queen of Olympus had traced every step of your mortal life. And now, they had dispatched the Seven to retrieve you. Pi…