Book 2:
Starcrossed, Josephine Angelini
Summary:
Helen Hamilton, a shy Nantucket teenager, starts having
strange dreams and hallucinations of three weeping women about the same time
that the extended Delos family moves to the island. Then, she finds herself
drawn to Lucas Delos, and she wants to kill him. After they save each other’s
lives, that stops, and quickly they seem to start falling in love. Amidst this,
the Delos family reveals that they are descended from the Greek god Apollo, and
Helen is descended from a different god, making them all Scions. The Delos
family – a part of House Thebes – helps train Helen so she can master her newfound
powers, especially so she can protect herself, as others try to kill her, like
the Delos’ cousin Creon. Helen and Lucas fall in love, but it turns out that
they can’t be together because if that happens they might start a new Trojan
War. Then Daphne, Helen’s mother, reappears, trying to get Helen to safety. Before
Helen can share this information, Creon attacks. The Delos clan works with
Helen and her mother – the last of House Atreus – to fight Creon, and Hector
Delos kills him. Daphne reveals that there are other Scions from the other two
houses still alive, which means that Lucas and Helen could be together.
However, Daphne has told Helen that her true father was Ajax Delos, making her
and Lucas cousins. As revealed essentially to the reader only, though, Ajax
died over a year before Helen was conceived, so Daphne lied. Finally, the
entire group learns about Helen’s strange dreams, which indicate that she can
descend into the land of the dead. The book ends with the reader wondering who
Helen’s real father is, whether she and Lucas will figure it out and be
together, and what it means for Helen’s future that she is a Descender.
