True Blue Forever

Three boys in love with the same girl. A son's promise to his father. A bitter rivalry ends in tragedy. The toughest choice of her life.

The final book in the True Blue Trilogy from the acclaimed author of Different Roads and the Unfinished Series. Fans of The Notebook will revel in this enduring love story, and baseball fans will adore the father/son dynamics like those in Field of Dreams.

“True Blue Forever is finely crafted work with realistic characters about whom the reader truly cares from the beginning.” — Carolyn Haines, bestselling author of the Sarah Booth Delaney mysteries and The Book of Beloved.

"True Blue Forever is one of those books you have a really hard time walking away from, kind of like your own first love.” —Elaine Bloome, MyShelf.com Book Reviews

"Author Scarbrough writes from the heart in True Blue Forever, a sweet story of friendship and heartbreak, first love and enduring friendship.” — Kathryn Lively, Blether Book Reviews

"This book should be required reading in high school. And instead of all the silly movies made portraying teenagers as mindless idiots and sex machines, someone should make a movie of True Blue Forever. It has everything, including honor and respect.” —Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Reviews

"True Blue Forever is set in southern Alabama and has a wonderful town filled with friendship, love and loyalty. The problems that face these teens are still very much alive in today’s society, and this reviewer feels teens can still relate to the dilemmas facing Jeana in her quest to find her true blue love. The author's knowledge of the feelings that teens face on their adventure into adulthood makes for a wonderful read." — Angie, Love Romances Book Reviews

"True Blue Forever has characters that become so real, you want to reach into the story and hug them! And when you get to the end of the trilogy, you'll want to go back and read it again and again so you can visit with them a little longer." — Lee Ann Ward, author of Glimpses of Wilderness and See.

1980—senior year! In this final installment of the True Blue Trilogy, it's getting harder than ever for Jeana to deal with the intense and violent relationships that Mickey, Wade, and Billy Joe have with her and with each other, and they all have tough choices to make about college and the rest of their lives. Just when they think they have things all figured out, tragedy strikes and everything changes, forcing Jeana to make the hardest decision she'll ever have to make. The road they travel to adulthood is paved with laughter, tears, and more than one kind of heartache, but Jeana holds on through it all to the one thing she never questions: a love that's True Blue.

JOYCE SCARBROUGH is a Southern woman who is weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies á la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. Joyce writes both adult and YA fiction, and also does freelance editing for select clients. In addition to her novels, she also has short stories published in multiple anthologies. She is active her local writers' guild and also in the Southern Breeze chapter of SCBWI. Joyce has lived all her life in beautiful LA (lower Alabama), she's the mother of three gifted children and a blind Pomeranian named Tilly, and she's been married for over 30 years to the love of her life-a superhero who disguises himself during the day as a high school math teacher and coach.