If Medusa and Midas are just a girl and a boy in today’s world, what happens when they meet?

Maddie is born with snakes in her scalp. They surface beyond her control whenever she feels threatened. Micah, due to his father’s run in with a down-on-his-luck satyr in New York City, can turn any natural object to pure gold.

“Gold and stone. An unlikely combination.”

But the day Maddie unknowingly transforms a wretched boy to stone and Micah learns his Uncle Drew has been using him to fund his business pursuits is the day they both abandon their families to prevent anymore ‘accidents.’

There’s just one thing. Uncle Drew can’t give up on his little golden boy. He finds them and others with similar unusual talents: flight, time travel, prescience, even death. He makes a nice collection for himself in an abandoned middle school too far outside of town for anyone to hear. Or care.

But Drew underestimates his housemates. Maddie, having finally mastered the snakes, and Micah, his golden touch, are not the weak pawns he assumes they are.

In this first in a series of young mythological characters coming together in the contemporary world, Maddie and Micah (Medusa and Midas) learn two things: they are far more powerful than they realize, and love is stronger than magic.

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