Scarlett is the story of Charlotte and Liam, a long-distance couple spanning the North American continent from Sedona, Arizona to St. Johns Newfoundland, Canada.
When the two meet for the first time, they waste little time getting physical. Upon their consummation, Charlotte feels as though she’s conceived.
Shortly after sharing the notion with Liam, she has a chance ghost encounter, upon which she comes to conclude that her ‘baby seed’ has been taken by the ghost; later learning to have implanted it into her living self, in the past, before she died. This child, to become the girl called Scarlett.
“It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Everyone talks of it, and scarcely anyone has seen it”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Liam and Charlotte’s lives navigating this insane circumstance become a lot more than they’d bargained for as a new couple. Charlotte’s special abilities to affect time (slightly projecting into the past/future), lead her to seek out the past where the daughter she never birthed, went.
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Initially, the methodology to try and reach Scarlett’s time is Dream-walking. Though adequate for a while, as the girl ages, she outgrows the ‘imaginary friends’ of childhood dreamland.
Later, a mirror (with a ‘thin spot’) from a St. Johns watering hole is discovered; whereby past travel is possible. With the aid of another ghost from the bar, plus the help of a server named Chloe, the foursome begin to navigate ‘the way-back machine’ with a certain effectiveness.
photo by Ruth Megan
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In Scarlett, the sexual explicitness isn’t simply gratuitous. Though enticing, it also generates a particular ‘macguffin’ which drives the tale in a unique and precise manner!
For this author’s first outing into such level of erotica, it’s pleasing that it works so intricately into the fabric of the story. It bleeds into the world-building of Scarlett to perfection!
photo by Olya Kobruseva
