Cursed

Before history turned her into a monster, Medusa was a child looking for a home.

Orphaned and entrusted to Athenas sanctuary, she grows beneath its marble columns, guided by a teacher she admires and surrounded by two girls, Selene and Ione, who become her chosen family. She believes wisdom can protect the innocent—until women begin disappearing behind locked doors, and those sworn to serve the goddess demand silence instead of justice.

Faith then gives way to a terrifying question: What good is devotion if it cannot protect the vulnerable?

Athena answers with a gift powerful enough to stop violence in its tracks. But Athens is quick to transform its protector into a legend, and every whispered accusation brings hunters closer. One devastating loss threatens to turn her into an instrument of vengeance, as buried truths emerge and her body changes beyond recognition.

Medusa must decide whether the monster in the stories is the creature she has become—or the cruelty that made her necessary.