Gorgon

Medusa is alive. Not a descendant, not a metaphor -- the original, three thousand years old, working as a stone conservator in the coastal city of Vesper Bay under the name Mara Cole, hiding behind smoked glasses and three millennia of practice.The world remembers her as the monster. The truth she has spent her life deciding whether to believe: Athena didn’t curse her, Athena armed her -- the serpent hair, the gaze, the agelessness were protection, so no one could ever take from her again.When a phone camera catches one of her rescues and the footage goes viral, the heir of the man who tried to take her head comes to finish the myth: Adrian Perseus, beloved philanthropist and private-security magnate, dying of his bloodline’s hereditary neurodegeneration, 'the fading,' needs her blood to live -- and needs her head to complete a three-thousand-year-old lie. To stop him she has to do the thing she has avoided for centuries: stop hiding, and choose, deliberately, to open her eyes.