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Scarlet Yearnings: Beyond First Glance invites readers into twelve intimate worlds where love matures, unravels, and begins again. Across Trinidadian hillsides, New York kitchens, and quiet city trains, men and women confront the tender work of seeing each other clearly—beyond desire, beyond duty, beyond first impressions. With evocative realism and diasporic warmth, Scarlet Ibis James explores connection at the edge of identity, memory, and time. Each unrelated story is a stand-alone and leaves an imprint that asks, with quiet honesty: what happens when we finally allow love to look back at us? All twelve chapters are available. In exchange for your feedback on all twelve chapters, you’ll receive a complimentary e-copy of the finished book and a special thanks in the acknowledgments.