The book of night women / James, Marlon

As a young woman named Lilith, born into slavery, comes of age on the Jamaican sugar plantation where she works, she and the other slave women realize that she has a dark and dangerous power within her. The Night Women, as they like to be known, inform Lilith of a slave revolt they have been planning, believing her to be the key to their success. As Lilith begins to question her own desires and destiny, however, she may end up becoming the revolt's weak link.

Lilith was born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they--and she--will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link.

Lilith, a slave on a Jamaican sugar plantation in the late eighteenth century, holds a dark power that makes her the target of a slave revolt, placing Lilith in danger as she is forced to push the limits of slavery and resolve.