✧ Lilia Beaumont wasn't supposed to exist. A child of Nyx was a myth - something even the gods whispered about but never acknowledged. Yet she arrives at Camp Half-Blood with shadows clinging to her like a second skin and a curse burning under it. Everyone fears her. Everyone except Percy Jackson, who seems determined to understand her, even as the darkness inside her grows stronger and more dangerous than prophecy ever warned. ✧ "One day the darkness will slip. I don't want to hurt you when it does." "Then let me stay. If I'm by your side when it slips, maybe you won't fall."