Eight Weeks, Three Couples, One Ship Noelle Bentley has a problem. It's Quentin Jacobs. He's a bonafide food, shelter, water man-all Noelle's secretly ever wanted yet has been too terrified to have. Quentin knows that Noelle is a flight risk, but that doesn't stop him from falling for her. Confident that he has the love Noelle needs, can Quentin convince her that he's the home she's been waiting for? Celia Navarro has haunted Joaquín Santiago's dreams since he first saw her, but she doesn't even know he's alive. Until one day, Celia finally notices Joaquín's scorching stare, and she is determined to have him. But Celia knows from experience that a fire this hot is bound to leave a mark. Will self-preservation prevail, or will they be consumed by the fire? Sidney Pascal misses the life she used to have before she settled with a man who thinks a guest host on Jeopardy! is a big deal. So when she gets the opportunity to do something wild with her duty section crush, Nicolas Kaneko, she takes it. But Nicolas has more planned for Sidney than just one night, and all Sidney has to do is say yes. With eight short weeks before the USS Puget Sound sets sail to the Mediterranean Sea, six sailors find themselves navigating uncharted waters before the ship even leaves the pier. Set in the mid-1990s, ROCK THE BOAT is the first book in the We Were The Puget Sound Series about love and life in the Navy and the symbiotic, often complicated relationship sailors have with it.