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. “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.
