Louisa Torrence

Louisa Torrence was the original name of a woman who visited the Inn in 2007 and became the third Marie Desjardins.

Early Life and Transformation
Louisa was born in Louisiana. She was married to a man named Frank for many years, until his death by cancer in fall 2006. At that time she had been working as a high school librarian, and her trip to the Inn was a gift to her from her co-workers; she openly wondered whether any of them knew its secret.

When she inherited Marie's life she had intended to follow Liz's advice and not return to Montreal due to the presence of André Trudeau. but returned for the sake of Marie's mother Claire, who was in ill health. After she passed on July 12th, Louisa began planning to make the intended "clean break," citing the fact that she now had funeral expenses but no income.

Road Trip
Louisa visited Liz in Boston, then met with Ashlyn and Jessica, arranging a fact-finding road trip with the latter in order to inform the original Marie that her mother had passed as well as t ocontact as many victims of the inn as possible.

In New York, the contacted Vinessa Lopez and Mark Lange, who were living as Nicoleta Fidatov and Ginessa Lopez, respectively. They found that both had had problems with the INS, with Vinessa under threat of deportation to Nicoleta's native Ukraine and Mark in danger of being sent to Peru. They found that Mark had entered into a green card marriage in order to avoid this deportation, with the producer of a play "she" had failed to be cast in. They also met Darren Bridger, in the body of Jamie Connor, and noted that he seemed very uncomfortable.

After stopping at the Baltimore gravesite of Conrad Mancini, she and Jessica met the new Dex Langan in Washington, D.C., who identified himself as having formerly been a con artist by the name of Vera Lane.

Though she had felt uncomfortable dressing up for a night out with "Nicoleta" and "Ginessa," she found herself gradually feeling her newfound youth, sometimes in unexpected, even slightly unwelcome ways, such as when she met the man now known as Josiah Johnson and felt some attraction to him. Later, she visited the new person in her body, who revealed herself to have been a 28-year-old man named Dylan, who had deliberately booked himself a trip to the Inn after reading the blog, and was all too pleased to have awoken as the "mature widow." Louisa and Jessica were off-put by this usage of the Inn's magic, with Louisa displeased that the young man would throw so much of his life away, and Jess irritated that he cast his own problems to someone else to deliberately live a lie.

Later, they traveled to Texas, where Jess used subterfuge to acquire information from Stephen Jefferies. They also visited Trip in Iowa on the way to Chicago, where Jess attempted to find leads to track down the Anderson Family, and Michigan, where they met Jeff Miller. Jeff introduced them to the new Brianna, whom he had befriended, and who expressed some level of attraction to him. The new Bree revealed her background to Jess and Louisa, but asked that it not be recorded on the blog, as Jeff was not fully informed yet. New-Bree also revealed that although Brianna had received a breast augmentation, her breasts were natural tissue, indicating that the Inn's curse had simply filled in the blanks rather than recreate inorganic matter. Louisa supposed this explained other differences between Inn victims and their originals, such as Trip's narcolepsy as Kat, and Darren's peanut allergy as Jamie.