A Beautiful Evil: A bestselling grumpy sunshine re-imagining of the Pandora myth
Aug 2025 · Random House
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The instant bestselling YA Greek myth re-imagining from Bea Fitzgerald, TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen.
Pandora is the first human woman – made by the gods on Olympus for one simple purpose: to love and be loved by her new husband, the titan Epimatheos.
The only problem? He wants nothing to do with her.
Hurt and confused, Pandora struggles to find meaning in her new life. What's the point of being given all these gifts by the gods, if she can't get this infuriating, awful, frankly very rude man (with an admittedly quite nice face) to love her? Maybe she's failing at her life’s purpose. Or maybe she's destined for an entirely different one . . . ?
As Pandora and Matheos work to uncover why she was created, that fated connection between them feels increasingly difficult to ignore. And with that comes terrible risk. Because Matheos’s traitorous brother, Prometheus, is a seer – and before the gods captured him he issued a final warning: that Pandora and Matheos’s love will be humanity’s doom.
So . . . what do you do when faced with an all-powerful love . . . that just happens to threaten the end of the world?
Pandora’s about to find out.
A glorious sunshine/grumpy romantic re-imagining of the Pandora myth, from the bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen and The End Crowns All
'No one does Greek myths quite like Bea Fitzgerald . . . A deliciously addictive romp.' - The Observer
'Full of laughter, romance and drama . . . I would read ANYTHING she writes.' - Elodie Harper, bestselling author of The Wolf Den
'Empowering and thoroughly entertaining.' - Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne
'A brilliant, bright and hopeful examination of female desire and agency.' - Costanza Casati, bestselling author of Babylonia
Pandora is the first human woman – made by the gods on Olympus for one simple purpose: to love and be loved by her new husband, the titan Epimatheos.
The only problem? He wants nothing to do with her.
Hurt and confused, Pandora struggles to find meaning in her new life. What's the point of being given all these gifts by the gods, if she can't get this infuriating, awful, frankly very rude man (with an admittedly quite nice face) to love her? Maybe she's failing at her life’s purpose. Or maybe she's destined for an entirely different one . . . ?
As Pandora and Matheos work to uncover why she was created, that fated connection between them feels increasingly difficult to ignore. And with that comes terrible risk. Because Matheos’s traitorous brother, Prometheus, is a seer – and before the gods captured him he issued a final warning: that Pandora and Matheos’s love will be humanity’s doom.
So . . . what do you do when faced with an all-powerful love . . . that just happens to threaten the end of the world?
Pandora’s about to find out.
A glorious sunshine/grumpy romantic re-imagining of the Pandora myth, from the bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen and The End Crowns All
'No one does Greek myths quite like Bea Fitzgerald . . . A deliciously addictive romp.' - The Observer
'Full of laughter, romance and drama . . . I would read ANYTHING she writes.' - Elodie Harper, bestselling author of The Wolf Den
'Empowering and thoroughly entertaining.' - Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne
'A brilliant, bright and hopeful examination of female desire and agency.' - Costanza Casati, bestselling author of Babylonia
About the author
Bea Fitzgerald is a Sunday Times bestselling author and content creator who has swiftly become one of the UK's biggest YA stars. Her bestselling debut Girl, Goddess, Queen was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Fantasy Romance of the Year. Her follow-up, The End Crowns All, was an instant bestseller, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025. Her third YA novel, A Beautiful Evil, was also an instant bestseller. Bea's work has been translated widely across the globe, and when she's not writing, she's entertaining her followers on TikTok and Instagram with her mythology-themed comedy account @chaosonolympus.
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