Until she falls in love with Tatum, Janeesia didn't ever feel bicurious.Dramatic Arts degree in hand, Janeesia aims for Hollywood stardom.
In the meantime, she sells heating and cooling equipment inspections by phone to pay the bills. To get more acting experience, she auditions for every part that opens up.
Even in an "experimental" play such as Desert Island Blues, written and directed by the tyrannical, takes-everything-seriously Tatum.
Janeesia didn't expect to play a cactus, but it's still a speaking part, so she accepts it. She plans to joke about it when she accepts her Academy Award.
She also doesn't plan on kissing Tatum, but at a cast party, somehow that's what she does.
Which leads to a "friendly" date to watch an opera -- just because they both hate opera -- and a late night stroll on the Promenade bordering the Mississippi River. Janeesia really doesn't expect what happens that night.
After all, Janeesia has never identified as a lesbian. What is happening to her?
Janeesia also doesn't know Tatum still suffers from the heartache of losing her most beloved girlfriend to marriage with a man, and self-medicates her depression with alcohol.
Janeesia also doesn't realize how much her father's alcoholism still haunts her.
Or how much her ambition for commercial success violates Tatum's personal standards of artistic and political purity.
With so many obstacles, it's a wonder Janeesia can still play a cactus in Tatum's play.
How can they live with their love?
3 Flames
62,000 words
Therefore, download Innocent 5: Janeesia of the League of Worldly Wise Innocents now.
Book 5 of The League of Worldly Wise Innocents series.
About the Author: L.A. Zoe grew up in a small, Illinois river town and now lives in a tropical paradise full of palm trees with the loves of Zoe's life, and extended family. Fond of adventure, travel, and white sand beaches, L.A. prefers the "Bollywood" movies of India to modern Hollywood flicks, because they emphasize love stories, complete with singing and dancing. Favorite actor: Shah Rukh Khan.
L.A. celebrates the freedom of the United States, and enjoys residing in a country demographically much younger. L.A. eats lunch every day in a mall crowded with adults working hard to raise their babies, bunches of school children sharing snack time, and college sweethearts holding hands.
Busy establishing and enjoying their lives, building a future for the world. Nobody worries about the future of Social Security or looks forward to retirement.
No one country, race, culture, religion, or ethnic group holds a monopoly on brains, beauty, hard work, or creativity. Success in the future demands all of the above, especially vision and a willingness to break with the past. To take chances and defy the reluctant majority.
Young adults -- whom publishers now call "new adults" -- keep the world fresh, exciting, and progressing toward humanity's destiny.
