Draft:The Court of the Dead

From the World of Percy Jackson
The Court of the Dead
A Nico di Angelo Adventure

Authors	Rick Riordan Mark Oshiro
Cover artist	Khadijah Khatib
Language	English
Series	The Nico di Angelo Adventures
Genres	Children's fantasy Action fiction Adventure fiction Middle grade fiction Classical mythology Greek mythology Roman mythology Gay children's fiction Bisexual middle grade fiction Children's fiction
Publisher	Disney-Hyperion (United States) Puffin Books (United Kingdom)
Publication date	September 23, 2025 (Hardcover, Ebook)
Publication place	United States United Kingdom
Media type	Hardcover, Ebook
Pages	448 (Hardcover) 448 (Ebook)
ISBN	9781368109116
Preceded by	The Sun and the Star
Website	The Court of the Dead | Rick Riordan

From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead: A Nico di Angelo Adventure, commonly known as The Court of the Dead, is a 2025 American children's fantasy action-adventure middle grade children's fiction novel based on Greek-Roman classical mythology co-written by American authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro. The book is a sequel to the 2023 novel The Sun and the Star and the second book in The Nico di Angelo Adventures series. The story follows the demigod children and boyfriends Nico di Angelo and Will Solace, the sons of the Greek Gods Hades and Apollo, respectively, as the boys join Hazel Levesque, the daughter of the Roman God Pluto, at Camp Jupiter on the West Coast of the United States, to help her manage a situation that the boys have inadvertently brought about.

The Court of the Dead was published by Disney-Hyperion in the United States and by Puffin Books in the United Kingdom. The book is scheduled to be released on September 23, 2025.

Background

The prequel to The Court of the Dead, The Sun and the Star, was released on May 2, 2023, and immediately became the number one bestseller on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children’s Middle Grade books, the American Booksellers Association IndieBound Best Seller List for Early & Middle Grade Readers, the Publishers Weekly Best Seller List for Children's Fiction, and The Globe and Mail Bestseller List for Juvenile books.

The Sun and the Star was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children’s Middle Grade books for a total of 73 weeks, the American Booksellers Association IndieBound Best Seller List for Early & Middle Grade Readers for a total of 44 weeks, the Publishers Weekly Best Seller List for Children's Fiction for a total of 33 weeks, and The Globe and Mail Bestseller List for Juvenile books for a total of 9 weeks. The book was the number one overall bestseller on the American Booksellers Association IndieBound Best Seller List for Early & Middle Grade Readers for the entire year of 2023.

The Sun and the Star was awarded the Common Sense Selection Seal for Families by Common Sense Media, and listed as a Best Middle-Grade Fantasy of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews.

As a result of the above aforestated success, the sequel to The Sun and the Star, The Court of the Dead, was announced by authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro on February 28, 2025.

Characters

• Niccolò di Angelo, commonly known as Nico di Angelo, is an Italian-born Greek demigod who is the son of the Greek God Hades and the Italian mortal Maria di Angelo. He is 10 years old in his first appearance in The Titan's Curse in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and 14 years old in his appearance in The Court of the Dead in The Nico di Angelo Adventures series. He is an Italian boy with black hair, dark brown eyes, and white skin. He is the first openly gay character in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, a main character in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Heroes of Olympus series, and The Trials of Apollo series, respectively, and the protagonist and the title character of The Nico di Angelo Adventures series. He is the boyfriend of Will Solace.
• William Andrew Solace, commonly known as Will Solace, is an American-born Greek demigod who is the son of the Greek God Apollo and the American mortal Naomi Solace. He is 12 years old in his first appearance in The Last Olympian in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and 16 years old in his appearance in The Court of the Dead in The Nico di Angelo Adventures series. He is an American boy with blond hair, light blue eyes, and white skin. He is the first openly bisexual character in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, a minor character in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and The Heroes of Olympus series, respectively, a main character in The Trials of Apollo series, and the deuteragonist of The Nico di Angelo Adventures series. He is the boyfriend of Nico di Angelo.
• Hazel Levesque is an American-born Roman demigod who is the daughter of the Roman God Pluto and the American mortal Marie Levesque. She is 13 years old in her first appearance in The Son of Neptune in The Heroes of Olympus series and 15 years old in her appearance in The Court of the Dead in The Nico di Angelo Adventures series. She is an American girl with cinnamon brown hair, amber eyes, and black skin. She is a main character in The Heroes of Olympus series, a minor character in The Trials of Apollo series, and the tritagonist of The Court of the Dead in The Nico di Angelo Adventures series.