I, Medusa: A new kind of villain origin story

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, 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 a priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance to see the world beyond her home. Flourishing in her role as Athena’s favoured acolyte, all it takes is one fateful night to irrevocably alter the course of Meddy’s promising future forever.

With her locs transformed into snakes as punishment for a crime she did not commit, Meddy 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 reimagines the iconic figure from Greek mythology as a young Black woman caught in the cross currents between her heart’s deepest desires and the cruel, careless games the Olympian gods play.