[Story Blurb: Female Lead]
Because of one mistaken choice, she mistook lust for love, lost her family, lost her child, and even lost the will to live.
But a soul from another world in the 21st century tells her that she is only eighteen, that her life is full of possibilities, and that she ought to live for herself.
She laughed it off and doubted it, until the day she first stepped onto the theater stage she had never dared to dream of.
From that moment on, she knew:
She was born for the stage.
[One-Sentence Blurb]
[A 21st-century soul and friend accompanies me as I go from usher to Broadway star a century ago]
[Reading Notes]
1) A parallel, fictionalized world set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The female lead is inspired by the world in Theodore Dreiser's writing (the young factory girl in An American Tragedy), with lots and lots of original additions.
2) The female lead is a native of this world; the modern soul is her
