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'An epic reimagining of history's most misunderstood woman. Perfect provocation for book clubs and lovers of visionary mythological fiction.'

6,000 years ago, in ancient Uruk, Lilith is the most powerful woman in the world.

As High Priestess, she rules a civilisation of lavish ritual and unapologetic feminine power — a world where women's sexuality and fertility are sacred, where the Great Mother is worshipped without question, and where beauty, ceremony, and erotic freedom are woven into the fabric of daily life.

But Lilith is haunted. A secret temple prophecy warns that unchecked, male power will one day rise to dominate and destroy. It is this fear that drives the priestesshood to rule as they do, subjugating men and boys with a cruelty that haunts Lilith daily — including the fate of the twin brother torn from her in childhood.

She is bound to uphold a system she knows is wrong. Yet she alone can see that suppressing men is not prevention but provocation. The only answer is what no one around her is willing to hear: true union of equals, neither sex above the other.

It is the most advanced vision in her world. It is also the most dangerous position to hold.

Then Adam arrives — a gem trader from the desert with urgent warnings of a male uprising and a vision of balance. Lilith acts from the courage of her conviction: that the cycle of domination can only be broken by someone willing to extend trust across the divide. She lets him into her inner circle and into her heart.

What follows is the opening of a door that cannot be closed. A cascade of events sets a fated sequence into motion — a mounting war, a betrayal so total it will erase her name from history and write a different story in its place.

Yet even in the depths of her loss, Lilith discovers that her vision was never wrong, only premature. She was playing a role in an ancient cosmic cycle, a pendulum swing written in the stars long before her birth, that must complete its arc before the unity she dreamed of can be lived. The pain, the destruction, the exile — all of it part of a greater turning.

The personal is mythic, and the mythic is achingly human.

I Am Lilith is a spiritual epic grounded in ancient Sumerian history and real astronomical and astrological cycles. It traces how the truth of unity — between masculine and feminine, self and other, human and divine — cannot be willed into being but must be earned across millennia of karmic cycles, each one bringing the soul closer to what it always knew.

For readers of:

Circe by Madeline Miller
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

I Am Lilith: An Epic Reimagining of the Story of Lilith

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