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. “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 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.
