Three Hearts, One Stolen Truth: A Young Adult Cruise-Ship Romance and Mystery

Navy Carmichael is almost seventeen, facing another unwanted move, and determined to experience one meaningful first kiss before starting over again.




An Alaska cruise gives her exactly one week.




Isaiah needs a girlfriend to convince his grandmother that he belongs back on the Montana ranch he considers home. Jesse is hiding his mother’s departure and his father’s drinking behind jokes, curiosity, and the smooth voice he uses as a late-night radio host.




Assigned to the same dinner table, the three teenagers become inseparable as the ship travels through Alaskan ports, glaciers, dances, storms, and impossible choices between friendship and attraction.




Then Navy accidentally takes the wrong purse.




The mistake places them under the attention of ship security just as valuables begin disappearing. A hardworking cabin attendant becomes the obvious suspect, but the evidence does not fit. Money, jewelry, secret relationships, and carefully maintained family stories begin crossing in ways none of them expected.




To protect an innocent man and clear their own names, Navy, Isaiah, and Jesse must discover who is lying before the ship reaches Seattle. Along the way, they will learn that attraction can be performed, families can hide entire histories, and every story changes depending on who is telling it.




Warm, funny, romantic, and suspenseful, Three Hearts, One Stolen Truth is a multi-viewpoint young adult novel about a cruise-ship love triangle, a stolen-jewelry mystery, complicated parents, first love, and three teenagers deciding who they want to become.