Expected Publication Date: Jun 2, 2026
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"Scarlet Yearnings: Beyond First Glance"
by Scarlet Ibis James
Stories of Love and Desire
Request Review CopyA collection of twelve interconnected stories exploring love’s reckoning. From a friendship tested by silence to a marriage built on a spy’s cover, these tales navigate the messy, complex aftermath of first impressions.
# Women's Fiction
# African American
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Scarlet Yearnings: Beyond First Glance is a collection of twelve genre-spanning stories about what happens after the spark. Moving from contemporary romance to Afro-futurism to pulse-quickening suspense, these characters face the reckoning that follows attraction. Love here is not performance but practice, shaped by friendship, betrayal, memory, and the cost of staying.