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Elspeth Howell walks across miles of snow and ice in the winter of 1897 to the secluded property where she and her husband have reared their five children in upstate New York. Her pay as a midwife is tucked inside the toes of her boots. However, when she sees her darkened house with a smokeless chimney, she realizes that an unfathomable act has destroyed the life she had worked to build.

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Lilith was born into slavery on a sugar plantation in Jamaica at the end of the 18th century. Even before she is born, the slave women who surround her have been seeking a dark power. The Night Women, as they are known, have been organizing an insurrection, and Lilith's coming of age and revelation of her power is crucial to their goals.