The Black Widowmaker is the story of a black girl who never had a chance from the gitgo. Dumped by her mother as a child, she learns to love her gramma, but a careless word changes her life completely. Still a child, Pearl begins a journey through a life of drugs, sexual debauchery, and murder. Finally free of the Jamaicans, she meets ex-Miami detective Yan Brodjevinski, and her life seems to start getting better--but things are often not as they seem to be.