This novel sheds light on a mysterious aspects of Senegalese History during the transatlantic slave trade of the 1700s: A portrait of the life and time of the Signares and the infamous House of Slaves on Goree Island. This fictional illustration focuses how a unique society of mulatto women that inhabited the island who found their empowerment within the midst of a European aristocratic economic system by wielding their sexuality and intellect as lethal weapons.