Johnson, Keith Lee

Johnnie Wise, a seductively beautiful fifteen-year-old, tries to take care of some unfinished business in New Orleans, including getting to know the white side of her family, persuading the love of her life to take her back, and convincing crime boss Napoleon Bentley that she wants nothing more to do with him.

Johnnie, a self-absorbed, self-righteous courtesan in New Orleans, is being sought after by the police who think she was involved in three murders and when two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the money that Sharon Trudeau stole is missing after Sharon is murdered, everything points to Johnnie.

A sixteen-year-old girl, having run away from her African village to be with the brother of the man she was suppose to marry, is taken aboard a Dutch slave ship and brought to New Orleans where she struggles to adapt to the life of a slave and hopes to be reunited with her lover.

Johnnie Wise, sold into prostitution by her mother at the age of fifteen, uses her newly acquired bedroom skills and beauty to convince a man to buy her a home in an upscale neighborhood in 1950's New Orleans, and eventually finds love with a man who returns her affections, but trouble starts to brew when her lover's boss, a local crime lord, decides he wants Johnnie for himself.

Johnnie Wise, a seventeen-year-old in 1950s New Orleans, has lost her innocence to past indiscretions, and finds herself complicit in three murders and surrounded by enemies out to seek revenge.