Jason has a problem. He doesnt remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently shes his girlfriend Piper his best friend is a kid named Leo and theyre all students in the Wilderness School a boarding school for bad kids. What he did to end up here Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days and her vivid nightmares reveal that hes in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesnt recognize her and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip she Jason and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously the place beats Wilderness School hands down with its weapons training monsters and fine-looking girls. Whats troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about and that a campers gone missing. Weirdest of all his bunkmates insist they are all-including Leo-related to a god. Rick Riordan the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series pumps up the action and suspense in The Lost Hero the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Fans of demi-gods prophesies and quests will be left breathless--and panting for Book Two.