The Court of the Dead

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 Greco-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 is the second book in The Nico di Angelo Adventures series. The story follows the demigods and heroes, 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 inadvertently brought about.

The Court of the Dead was originally published in American English by Disney-Hyperion in the United States and in British English by Puffin Books in the United Kingdom. The English language version novel was released on September 23, 2025, and immediately became the number one bestseller on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children’s Middle Grade books, the USA Today Best Seller List for Juvenile Fiction, the Publishers Weekly Best Seller List for Children's Fiction, the American Booksellers Association IndieBound Best Seller List for Early & Middle Grade Readers, and The Globe and Mail Bestseller List for Juvenile books.