Jason hat ein Problem. Er hat keinerlei Erinnerung bis zu dem Moment, in dem er in einem Schulbus aufwacht, Händchen haltend mit einem Mädchen. Tatsächlich ist dieses Mädchen, Piper, seine Freundin. Sein bester Freund heißt Leo und sie alle gehen auf ein Internat für schwer erziehbare Kinder. Jason hat keine Ahnung, wie sie dort gelandet sind, nur, dass sich alles fürchterlich falsch anfühlt. Als dann auch noch das Gerücht über einen Fluch die Runde macht, ein gewaltiger Sturm aufkommt und seltsame Kreaturen auftauchen, ist klar, dass hier irgendetwas ganz und gar nicht stimmt.
Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're 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. <p/>Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he's in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn't 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? <p/>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. What's troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all--including Leo--related to a god. <p/>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.
