From New York Times bestselling author Ayana Gray comes a new kind of villain origin story
reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful
young heroine. 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 Athens' colourful market
streets and the clandestine chambers of the temple Meddy flourishes in her role as Athena'
s favoured acolyte getting her first tastes of purpose and power. But when she is noticed by
another Olympian Poseidon a drunken night between girl and god ends in violence and the
course of Meddy' s promising future is suddenly and irrevocably altered. Her locs
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 cross currents between her heart' s deepest desires and the cruel
careless games the Olympian gods play.
