Scarlet Ibis James

Love In The Dark: A Holiday Romance for Grown-Ups (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This December, when a blizzard traps them in their Connecticut home two weeks before Christmas, Marissa and Gregory must decide if their marriage is worth saving before the New Year begins...

For readers who believe second chances are harder-and more beautiful-than first love

When Marissa Williams-Parker packs divorce papers in her laptop bag, she's done waiting for her husband to come home. Twenty years of watching Gregory choose the gym over breakfast, spreadsheets over conversation, and financial security over their dreams of children has left her exhausted. She's built a life around community work while he's built walls around his heart.

Then a blizzard knocks out the power in their Connecticut home, trapping them in darkness with nothing but dying phones and difficult truths.

No escape to his 5 AM workouts. No charity galas for her to organize. No electricity to maintain the careful distances that have kept them strangers in their own home.

As the temperature drops and the snow piles higher, Marissa and Gregory must decide: Is love at forty-something worth fighting for when the fairy tale has long since faded? Can two people who've forgotten how to be friends remember why they chose forever?

This intimate short story is for you if:

• You've ever wondered if "for better or worse" includes the silent years
• You believe Black love deserves complex, authentic stories
• You're tired of romance novels where problems disappear with a kiss
• You know that real love means choosing each other, especially when it's hard
• You understand that sometimes the bravest thing is staying

Love in the Dark is a story about marriage after the honeymoon ends, love after the butterflies settle, and finding your way back to someone who's been beside you all along.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarlet Ibis James
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798999382993
• Artikelnr.: 75869559

Autorenporträt

Scarlet Ibis James crafts stories where Caribbean spirits intertwine with Harlem's rhythms, drawing deep from her Trinidadian roots and her life in New York City. Her latest novel, "Scarlet Birthright: What My Father Left Behind" (2025), emerged from her acclaimed collection "Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire" (2024), when readers and characters alike demanded their voices be heard.

Known for weaving intergenerational tales that pulse with soca rhythms and city beats, James explores how love, culture, and destiny reflect across oceans and decades. Her characters navigate the spaces between islands and boroughs, between traditional expectations and personal truth, creating stories that feel like conversations with your boldest friend the one who understands that sometimes the bravest thing we can do is choose differently than those who came before us.

When not writing about love's many faces, James can be found hunting down the perfect roti in Queens (TrinCiti it is!), swaying to calypso in her Harlem apartment-turned-writing-sanctuary, or collecting stories while people-watching on subways and in parks. She believes every tale holds a touch of ancestral knowing, whether it blooms in the frangipani or poui trees of Port of Spain or sprouts through the cracks of New York City sidewalks.

Her writing celebrates the complexity of Caribbean-American identity, the power of inherited stories, and the courage it takes to break cycles and forge new paths. For James, inspiration flows from everywhere family histories whispered over morning coffee, steelpan rhythms floating on island breezes when she visits home, and the endless possibilities in her American city built where the spirits of the Wecquaesgeek people still rise.