A Beautiful Evil
Love isn't the end of the world.
Unless you're Pandora...
When the Gods make the first human woman, Pandora, they impress on her just one certainty: that she has been made to love and be loved by her husband, the titan Epimatheos. But believing that the gods who torture his brother Prometheus do not bring Pandora as the gift they claim, Epimatheos wants nothing to do with her.
Hurt and confused, Pandora struggles to find purpose and meaning in her new life. Worse, having failed the very gods that made her, how will she ever earn their love again? Though with Matheos’s brooding melancholy, constant snipes and seemingly permanent glower, Pandora’s beginning to suspect she was made for some other purpose: because surely it’s not to love this insufferable (albeit rather handsome) man.
But as Pandora and Matheos work to uncover the truth of her creation, that fated connection between them feels increasingly difficult to ignore. And with that comes greater risk. Because Prometheus left his brother with one final warning: that their love would be humanity’s doom.
A GRUMPY SUNSHINE REIMAGINING OF THE MYTH OF PANDORA, PUBLISHING 7TH AUGUST 2025​
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"Bea brings her wry, witty and utterly fresh perspective to the myth of Pandora, fleshing a much-maligned figure into a woman brimming with heart, joy and intellectual inquisitiveness. She cleverly turns a misogynistic story on its head, inviting the reader to consider Pandora's curiosity as a strength rather than a flaw - and encouraging us to question everything we've been told before in the process. Bea finds a brilliant and startling way to tie up the loose ends of myth and gives us a beautiful love story as well as the tale of a woman finding out who she is and what she wants. An empowering and thoroughly entertaining novel"
Jennifer Saint
Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne
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“Fitzgerald has outdone herself with this masterful retelling of the myth of Pandora. Alongside the delightful grumpy-meets-sunshine romance and the thrilling plot of defiance is a reclamation of female agency, curiosity and hope - the very essence of being human. I absolutely loved it?”
Kika Hatzopoulou
Sunday Times bestselling author Thread That Bind
“Heartfelt, hilarious, and inherently hopeful, A Beautiful Evil is a stunning reimagining - and reclamation - of the myth of Pandora. I fell in love with this story - the irresistible grumpy-sunshine romance, the piercing social commentary, and the lyrical, poetic prose. It is a powerful reminder that strength lies in our differences, and that hope is eternal. A joy from start to finish. Bea Fitzgerald has done it again”
Lauryn Hamilton Murray
Sunday Times bestselling author of Heir of Storms