Quintessence

Overview: Kelli Jae Baeli began writing as a child, exploring poetry and journaling, and eventually moving on to short stories. After a romantic fling in the military with another female soldier, she decided to write a book based on the experience. The story that evolved took on a life of its own, but it became her first novel, As You Were. This was followed quickly by Armchair Detective, a book she said she wrote because she couldn’t find other lesbian fiction she liked at the time, and so wanted to write something she would want to read. She's been doing that ever since. "Am so enjoying Kelli Jae's books at the moment, they have heart, soul, and magic in every page and every story and Quintessence is not exception of the brilliant writings of this Author." The old barn laboratory holds much more than some mad scientist's forgotten notebooks. It's a new reality. If you push your luck, expect it to push back. That's what my Grandma Beasley used to say. And she was right. I had it illustrated to me ten days ago, and again on this frigid October night in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas. So begins the journey of twenty-five year old Jason Beasley, a Synesthete-- his brain merges his senses in a way that allows him to see words and images before him as if on a Plexiglas screen. When he leaves his mother's house for the last time, along with her pious and overbearing preacher boyfriend, his journey takes him to an old barn laboratory in Coffeyville Kansas, which holds much more than some mad scientist's forgotten notebooks. He is about to discover, literally, a new reality, and that the research Professor Pritchard has done will lead him to the life he didn't know he was missing. If he could only get used to all the differences; starting with the fact that his own gender has changed. "I loved the other world/realityI want to live there! No plastic, everyone grows their own food and it's a matriarchal society! I can see a Netflix series made from this! I would definitely recommend for lovers of science fiction/the cosmos and I'm sure both (open-minded) men and lesbians will enjoy this story."