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Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love & Desire

🏆 Winner of 2025 International Impact Book Award: Short Story Collection
🏅 2025 Finalist-Multicultural Fiction category of the American Legacy Book Awards

Consider every stolen glance, every half-healed scar, and every late-night what if could bloom into its own story? 🌺

These twelve short stories tell of urgent human desire, from Harlem brownstones to Trinidadian shores, from elevator crushes to cosmic chatrooms. Scarlet Ibis James pulls back the curtain of love in all its messy, yet magnificent, complexity—parental, romantic, self-forgiving, and soul-deep. Her prose is lean and soulful, her characters gloriously flawed, and each last line lands like a hush before thunder. Every passionate spark stays gracefully behind a closed door—think heart-flutter, not half-clothed.

Why Readers Can’t Put It Down

• Real-world resonance: Black, Caribbean-American, and multicultural voices that feel like friends across the table.
• Emotion you can taste: From swoon-worthy sparks to bittersweet gut-punches in under ten pages.
• Perfect “one-more” length: Commute, coffee break, or bedtime wind-down—devour a complete story in ten minutes.
• Genre-bending surprises: A dash of speculative, a hint of humor, and the quiet power of literary fiction.
• Book-club gold: Themes of longing, identity, marriage, and second chances beg to be discussed.

Whether you crave a tender first-love flutter or a raw look at a marriage fraying at the edges, Scarlet Yearnings delivers “music with words.”

Ready to fall in love, over and over again? Click ‘Buy Now’ and let your yearning bloom. 🌺