Chapter 1-Welcome Home Heroes

The war is over.Gaia is gone. The Seven have survived.
Now comes something harder:healing.
Percy, Annabeth and the others return to New Rome to rebuild their lives together. There's laughter, love, late-night kitchen raids and dreams of futures they never thought they'd get to live. Solangelo blossoms quietly in the garden shadows. Leo Valdez might be turning his villa into a fire hazard. And for once, nobody's running into battle.

But peace doesn't last forever.
Rachel Elizabeth Dare arrives shaken and broken.
The Oracle is silent.
And something strange is happening beneath the streets of New Rome

A soft beginning.
A deep bond.
And a hidden curse that could tear it all apart.