What would the world be like in three generations if power and money continues to be increasingly concentrated into fewer and fewer hands? In Five Women one person, Karnetta Monad, comes control the world. Karnetta is totally despotic, hedonistic and hates men. Five Women tells the story of good versus evil through the stories of five women, Karnetta, Helen, Lady Jane, Stella and Edith. It is also the story of gender and sexual politics and as such contains sections of highly descriptive sexual encounters.

Because of a freak discovery of an immortality pill Karnetta is able make herself immortal and becomes the self styled One True Living God. Karnetta attempts to kill the test subjects, Lady Jane and her husband Michael, and everyone who knows about immortality, but Michael escapes death when he is rescued by the underground resistance. Michael becomes the base subject for the creation of an immortal army becomes known as the mythical Soldier One. Michael is the thread that connects the stories five women, but it is they who are the real villain and heroes. The stories of each of the five women are complete in itself, but each story adds a different perspective that come together to form the complete story through their relationship to Michael.