LOTA KYLE is one of the most powerful female characters in DEVIL MAKE A THIRD. She is the 19 year old Georgia schoolteacher who marries 48 year-old Aven Mayor Buck Bannon in a church wedding five weeks after meeting him. The name "Lota" has "lot o' " significance in this story because Dothan Mayor Buck Baker, the model for Bannon, had a niece in Dothan named LOTA B. CHEEK who found some fame as a beauty contestant, silent movie star and stage performer in the early 1920s. One of her husbands was British actor, Tyrell Davis.