Jason Grace has been in love with Piper McLean for six years. Too shy to admit it, he now has a girlfriend, is on the varsity football team, and is very popular. He's still determined to win Piper over, even more driven by the fact that she already has a boyfriend. However, a new play in Drama and a poster for a Battle of the Bands is about to change a few things.

Piper McLean, better known as Scarlet Farer, is captain aboard her pirate ship of marauders. Prince Jason is prince of Rome, betrothed to his fiancée Reyna. Upon hearing that the king of Rome has sent fleets to capture and kill every pirate in the Mediterranean, Piper and her crew plot to capture Prince Jason for ransom, though she may get more than what she bargained for. JASPER!

An innocent game of truth or dare leads to horrifying results for Annabeth Chase- a new kind of empathy link is established between her and Percy... But it's not a normal one. Instead of just feeling each other's strong emotions, they can feel EVERY emotion- and, worst of all, they can hear each other's thoughts.