NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a “captivating
villain origin story” ( People Book of the Week) reimagining one of the most iconic monsters
in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine. The first edition hardcover
features stunning sprayed edges a premium dust jacket with foil and a gorgeous custom-stamped
case—while supplies last! “Ayana Gray brings her fresh dynamic storytelling to one of the
most monstered maligned and misunderstood women of Greek myth imagining all the girls that
Medusa was and could have been.”—Jennifer Saint bestselling author of Ariadne AN NPR BEST
BOOK OF THE YEAR Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else’s story. Out of
place next to her beautiful immortal sisters and her parents—both gods albeit minor ones—she
dreams of leaving her family’s island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the eye of
the goddess Athena who invites her to train as an esteemed priestess in her temple Meddy
leaps at the chance to see the world beyond her home. In the colorful market streets of Athens
and the clandestine chambers of the temple Meddy flourishes in her role as Athena’s favored
acolyte getting her first tastes of purpose and power. But when she is noticed by another
Olympian Poseidon the course of Meddy’s promising future is suddenly and irrevocably altered.
When her locs are transformed into snakes as punishment for a crime she did not commit Medusa
must embrace a new identity—not as a victim but as a vigilante—and with it the chance to
write her own story as mortal martyr and myth. Exploding with rage heartbreak and love I
Medusa portrays a young woman caught in the crosscurrents between her heart’s deepest desires
and the cruel careless games the Olympian gods play.
