Ashes of the Sea: Guardian of the Hunt story

Percy Jackson was never meant to grow old.
Not after the war. Not after losing Annabeth.

Haunted by grief and stripped of purpose, Percy disappears into the wilderness, spending four long years training in silence-stronger, sharper, and more connected to the divine world than ever before. But when he returns home, he finds peace in the last place he expected: caring for his baby sister, Estelle. Just as he begins to build a life around her, his mother's death shatters that fragile calm-and with it, a secret: Estelle is Poseidon's daughter.

Now the weight of the gods falls on Percy once again. With monsters organizing and targeting Artemis' Hunt, and Estelle in need of safety, Percy is drawn back into a war he never asked for. Tasked with guarding the Hunters and uncovering the source of the threat, Percy must protect the only family he has left... while confronting what he's become.

A story of love, loss, healing, and sacrifice-Ashes of the Sea is a powerful continuation of Percy Jackson's journey, reimagined not as a prophecy-fulfilling boy hero, but as a man learning what it truly means to endure.

"The boy who saved the world is gone. In his place stands a man with nothing left to lose-except his sister."

After the war and the loss of Annabeth, Percy Jackson disappears-into the woods, into grief, and into silence. He returns not as the sarcastic hero the world once knew, but as a hardened protector with only one soft spot left: his little sister. When Sally Jackson passes away and Percy learns Estelle is Poseidon's daughter, he takes on the burden of raising her alone.

Monster attacks grow stronger and more organized, targeting Artemis' Hunters. When Percy saves them from a deadly ambush, the gods call on him once more-not as a demigod of prophecy, but as the only one capable of protecting the Hunt and unraveling the threat rising in the shadows. With the weight of the gods on his back, Percy must walk a new path-one shaped not by destiny, but by choice.