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When duty to his kingdom meets desire for his enemy!


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Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

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Also by Olivia A. Cole:

Call Your Boyfriend, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Ariel Crashes a Train, March 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Dear Medusa, March 2023
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Dear Medusa
Olivia A. Cole

A Novel in Verse

Labyrinth Road- Penguin Random House
March 2023
On Sale: March 14, 2023
Featuring: Alicia Rivers
384 pages
ISBN: 0593485734
EAN: 9780593485736
Kindle: B0B52ZMGCB
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Poetry | Young Adult

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving.

"This is more than a story about sexual violence—this book is about race, sexuality, love, and how anger can be a catalyst for healing."
—Gabrielle Union, bestselling author, actress, and producer

Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there’s more to her story than the whispers that follow her throughout the hallways at school—whispers that splinter into a million different insults that really mean: a girl who has had sex. But what her classmates don't know is that Alicia was sexually abused by a popular teacher, and that trauma has rewritten every cell in her body into someone she doesn't recognize. To the world around her, she’s been cast, like the mythical Medusa, as not the victim but the monster of her own story: the slut who asked for it. 

Alicia was abandoned by her best friend, quit the track team, and now spends her days in detention feeling isolated and invisible. When mysterious letters left in her locker hint at another victim, Alicia struggles to keep up the walls she's built around her trauma. At the same time, her growing attraction to a new girl in school makes her question what those walls are really keeping out. 

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