Starcrossed

lied.”
    Helen nodded, accepting Lucas’s interpretation. “I’ve got too much baggage to think rationally about my mother.”
    “That’s the funny thing about being a Scion,” Lucas said, smiling in the petal-colored air of the chilly dawn. “Our fights tear the whole world apart, but for us, they’re really just family feuds. And no one ever acts rationally when it comes to their family.”
    Helen smiled back at him, struck yet again by how perceptive he was. Then she caught herself, and remembered how important it was to keep her distance from him. She turned her face away and forced herself to stand.
    “Are you going to be okay?” she asked him. He didn’t answer, but just smiled up her and nodded before turning his face back to the horizon.
    “Good morning, Lucas,” she said, her voice soft and sad as she walked away.
    “Good morning, Helen,” he replied, not allowing himself to turn and look at her as she left him.
    Helen, beloved of the goddess of love, went downstairs to crawl into her empty bed as Lucas, the son of the sun, leaned back on his elbows and watched his father-god brighten the bare wooden planks of her widow’s walk.

About the Author
    JOSEPHINE ANGELINI is a Massachusetts native and the youngest of eight siblings. A real-live farmer’s daughter, Josie graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in theater, with a focus on the classics. She now lives in Los Angeles with her screenwriter husband . . . and she can still drive a tractor.
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    Starcrossed
    Copyright © 2011 by Josephine Angelini
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Angelini, Josephine.
        Starcrossed / by Josephine Angelini. — 1st ed.
          p. cm.
        Summary: When shy sixteen-year-old Helen Hamilton starts having vivid dreams about three ancient, hideous women and suddenly tries to kill a new student at her Nantucket high school, she discovers that she is playing out some version of an old tale involving Helen of Troy, the Three Furies, and a mythic battle.
        ISBN 978-0-06-201199-2
        [1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Mythology, Greek—Fiction.
3. Nantucket Island (Mass.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
    PZ7.A58239St 2011
    [Fic]—dc22
    2010040425
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    EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062080165
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