Medea

Tradition casts Medea as a sorceress and a villain, the mother who murdered her children. This retelling of the Greek myth lets her tell her own story instead.

She is the daughter of a sea nymph and the granddaughter of a Titan. Her gifts are real power, yet she lives within the narrow limits set for a woman, and prophecies about her family follow her from the start.

Then the hero Jason arrives. Medea joins the Argonauts and meets dangers she has never faced before. She also falls in love with Jason, a man who may prove to be her downfall.

The novel is a feminist take on a familiar myth, told from the point of view of the woman it condemns. It follows her voyage with the Argonauts and her bond with Jason. The question it keeps open is how a woman with that much power ends up with the name history gave her.