Starcrossed (Starcrossed 1)

wondered again if she actually had walked for days, like she did in

her dream, or if there was something wrong with her mentally.

Noel?s words about love being able to drive a person mad came

back to haunt Helen. Were her all-too-vivid nightmares what Noel

had meant? And then she had to consider if, at that point, it might

not be a comfort to go stark, raving mad.

Creon stepped onto the dock from the private yacht his father had

supplied for him and his team. The trip across the Atlantic from

Spain to Nantucket had been long and tedious, but necessary. They

required tools that would never make it through customs, even on

a privately owned plane, and what was more, they could never fly

their quarry back, anyway. That would be foolish. She needed to be

properly secured no matter how much the preparation inconvenienced

Creon and his team.

His father had explained it all to him?how years ago he?d had

the chance to kill her, but that he had fallen under the spell of her

face?the Face. Creon was surprised that his father had been weaker

than him, but that, too, was a sign of the coming of Atlantis. The

Scion generations were fated to get stronger and stronger, to be

born with more and more talents until finally, a generation was to

come that could defeat the gods. His father?s moment of weakness,

as unfortunate as it was, had its benefits. In that moment, Tantalus

had learned of her phobia for the water. Creon?s quarry feared and

hated the ocean, and that was an advantage for the Hundred Cousins.

By using a boat to transport her, she would be virtually imprisoned

by an element she could not control, and considering how

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powerful she was, they needed to give her prison as many layers of

walls as they could find.

As he disembarked, Creon turned to tell his crew to stay on the