Bailey Ferg is a liar.
Grad school drop-out Bailey Ferg has a problem: she can’t stop lying. She’s lying to her parents, her sister, and her best friend, Shawn. But when Shawn gets injured, she can’t lie to herself anymore: she has feelings for him. Again.
Shawn Hoeft is a coward.
After a fall leaves him with a torn ACL and an empty summer, ballet dancer Shawn Hoeft has to confront the fact that he’s spent his life chasing two things: ballet and Bailey Ferg, and now he has neither—and no idea how to get them back.
When an old argument boils over and Bailey pulls Shawn into her bed—and her lies—the couple isn’t sure if they’re learning from their mistakes, or repeating them. For their relationship to survive the summer, Shawn knows he has to stand up for himself, Bailey knows she has to tell the truth, or they’ll never do anything but fight. And they both know it’s easier to start a fight than to end one.
Make It Nice is an open door, dual-timeline coming-of-age romance between twenty-two-year-olds figuring out the world, themselves, and each other.
Content Warnings: Multiple open-door sex scenes between enthusiastically consenting adults; Swearing, including blasphemy; Two minor characters struggle with substance abuse (off-page)which results in the death of a parent (off-page) and the abandonment of a child (off-page); Death of a grandparent (off-page); A supporting character has OCD. Her compulsions/rituals are include mild to significant self-harm; Underage drinking (not glorified; it’s a real problem with real consequences for these characters!); Dead gerbils (sorry).
Ellie Mack Romance Books 