Someday, she'll be my girl." At the fifth grade honors program, three eleven-year-old boys are captivated by a brilliant little red-haired girl named Jeana Russell as she recites the poem she wrote. They know this girl is special, and each boy vows to win her heart. As these four unconventional teenagers grow up together on the Alabama Gulf Coast in the late 1970s, they are bound to each other by friendship, rivalry, and raging hormones. Jeana struggles to deal with the intense and sometimes violent relationships the boys have with her and with each other. The road she travels 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.
The valedictorian of her high school graduating class, Joyce Sterling Scarbrough is an intelligent Southern woman weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies a la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. She's lived all her life in southern Alabama, she's the mother of three gifted children, and she's been married for 26 years to the love of her life.
In addition to her three novels, Joyce has five short stories featured in upcoming anthologies from L&L Dreamspell and Excalibur Press.
