NEW YORK TIMES 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.
