Nico recovers from the three days in the infirmary with the agonizing and taunting Dr. Solace but the doctor is not ready to let go yet and orders him around. Nico realizes it might the time to play the ace, since he is the son of Hades after all, and he definitely has a few tricks up his sleeve... Meanwhile, there might be another prophecy stirring up and it has nothing to do with the seven anymore but everything to do with the shadow traveler and his irresistible Doc. **THESE CHARACTERS BELONG TO RICK RIORDAN ONLY; THE AUTHOR OF PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS AND THE HEROES OF OLYMPUS**