Bøker av Joyce Scarbrough

Adolescent love like in The Wonder Years and friendships like those in Stand By Me. A sweet and funny book about growing up, for kids who are still in the middle of it, and for adults who want to remember what it was like. From the author of the Unfinished Series and Shades of Blue. "When you wish upon a star for true love and everlasting friendship, True Blue will make your wish come true." - Brenda Ashworth Barry, author of the Seasons of Love and War saga. "Sweet coming-of-age tale tangled in the hearts and minds of four amazing characters." - Carrie Dalby, author of the Possession Chronicles. It's 1972 in Chickasaw, Alabama-a time when kids ride their bikes all over town, spend lazy summer days finding shapes in the clouds, squirt each other with the water hose, catch lightning bugs in a jar, and play outside until the streetlights come on. Best friends Jeana, Wade, and Billy Joe have lived on the same street all their lives, but things start to change the summer after the fourth grade. The boys begin to look at Jeana and each other differently, and puberty is getting close to rearing its ugly head. Can the three of them stay friends, or will someone's heart get broken? And who is that new boy in Chickasaw with the royal blue eyes?

Being dead is all fun and games until you fall in love... You get murdered by an online predator, then you find out there's a "hold" on your Afterlife Account and you have to find and stop the man who killed you in order to clear your account. But how is any self-respecting dead girl supposed to focus on killing scumbags when she's got the hots for a cute nerd? Paranormal fun from the acclaimed author of the True Blue Trilogy and Symmetry. "This first book in the series is an intriguing mix of fantasy and reality, written with the author's signature blend of humor, empathy, believable characters and realistic dialog. The plot drew me in from page one and I could not put this book down!" - Midwest Book Reviews "Thrilling, poignant, scary, at times hilarious, this is a suspense-filled book that you won't want to end. A writer to watch!" - R.A. Nelson, author of Teach Me and Throat "I really enjoyed this book. It is an amazing escape from reality. Jada's story pulls you in and won't let go. This book is great for anyone looking for some humor and a quick getaway." - LitPick Student Reviews After she's murdered by a sexual predator, 18-year-old Jada Gayle must stay among the living until she finds and stops the Internet stalker who killed her. When the Afterlife Admissions Office assigns the now "transdead" Jada to a foster home back among the living, she assumes the identity of a homeless teen and is expected to simply fit in as she hunts down her killer, but that's not so easy when you're a hot zombie chick channeling Chuck Norris. Then she meets Lew Stanton-captain of the chess team and computer whiz who makes her dead heart beat phantom rhythms in her chest. As if it's not bad enough to have the hots for a nerd, Jada's new friend Annalee likes him too. While Jada deals with all this unwanted teenaged angst, the man who murdered her is closing in on more foolish girls. Jada thinks she has plenty of time to handle her predicament until the night she gets a terrifying message: I HAVE YOUR FRIEND.

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.

He'll love her as long as he lives. And longer . . . What if you finally get the chance to live a life that makes a difference, but it doesn't happen until after you're dead? This second book in the Unfinished Series by the acclaimed author of After Me and the True Blue Trilogy proves that it's never too late to find your true north. "Tough subjects dealt with heart and more than a serving of sarcasm and humor-that's what Joyce Scarbrough offers with her books." - Carrie Dalby, author of the Possession Chronicles and Fortitude. "Joyce Scarbrough breathes life into her characters from her heart." - Brenda Ashworth Barry, author of the Seasons of Love and War saga. Like so many men in Alabama, Wade Strickland's father thinks God created football on the 8th day. He makes Wade start using steroids when he's 14 years old and justifies it by telling Wade he's too dumb to do anything else but play football. After years of abuse from his father and a broken heart from losing the only girl he'll ever love, Wade wraps his Corvette around a tree when he's 18 and takes his own life. When he wakes up in the Afterlife Admissions office, his advisor named Flo tells him that there's an administrative hold on his Afterlife Account and he has to serve time as a Transdead Trustee and prevent other young athletes from using steroids in order to clear it. If that's not bad enough, the first guy Wade has to help is a baseball player like the blue-eyed Boy Scout who stole the girl he loves. Wade toughs it out and actually becomes friends with the guy he has to help, but he runs into trouble when he meets a girl who looks just like the one he can't forget, and she needs his help too. What's a lovesick dead guy to do? It's enough to drive Wade to drinking, but wouldn't you know it? Dead guys can't get drunk.

Friday night lights in Southern Alabama. This second book in the True Blue Trilogy is played out against a landscape painted with the music, muscle cars, and high school culture of the late 1970s-sans disco of course. "This book will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you look around every so often just to make sure you haven't shifted back in time." - T. M. Hunter, creator of the Aston West universe of novels and short stories. "After you read this book, true love will never bloom in red again. It will forever be Royal Blue." - Lee Ann Ward, author of Glimpses of Wilderness and Shadow Lilies. Now a sophomore in high school, Jeana Russell still thinks she'll never find a boy like the men in the novels she loves to read, so when Mickey Royal moves back to Alabama from Washington, Jeana is baffled by her instant attraction to this 3-sport athlete with the bluest eyes she's ever seen. Wade Strickland has gone from the sweet boy Jeana grew up with to the reigning football phenom on the varsity team, setting him on a path to violence with Mickey from their first encounter. Billy Joe DuBose is still Jeana's wise-cracking best friend who also bonds with Mickey-or is he just pretending so he can keep an eye on Jeana? And which boy will be the one to win her heart?

Jessica Cassady is a copyeditor for a small newspaper in Georgia where her husband Lee is a sportswriter. When he attends a convention in New York, Jess is shocked when she calls his room in the middle of the night and a woman answers. Lee swears things aren't what they seem, but Jess isn't so sure. She decides changes need to be made. After she kicks him out, Lee realizes just how much he's lost and tries his best to win her back. Things become even more complicated when Noah Hamilton, a sweet man from her past shows up. Sparks fly as these two polar opposites on the testosterone scale compete for her affection. While Jess is enjoying her new-found independence, conflict abounds and a choice needs to be made. Should she forego the beefcake brigade and give the sensitive type a try, or should she give in to the addictive rush she's always felt whenever she's close to Lee?