This contemporary romance coming out story features Ellisyn, a young college student who attends Ohio State University with her childhood friend Addilyn, they grew up in a rural town together, and are inseparable. That is until Ellisyn meets Maxxie, a young photographer that just moved to town. Addilyn is very extroverted while Ellisyn is very introverted, but Addilyn doesn’t let that stop her from dragging Ellisyn everywhere with her to parties and events. Maxxie feared coming to a big city, after leaving her family behind. With only having her cousin Whitney, whom she has nothing in common with, there, she was worried about making friends until she met Ellisyn, and she changed all of that. After meeting Maxxie, Ellisyn quickly realizes that she has to reveal a secret that she has been hiding from her family as well as her best friend. Fearing what they will do and say, she tries to hold off on telling them as long as she can, until she inevitably has to open up and show the real her. there is mention of conversion therapy, religious trauma, drug addiction, drug overdose, and depression.
Ohio-based author Elvi is the author of the Chronically a Vampire Series and the Zeglatia Trilogy. She is currently finishing her bachelor's degree in Creative Writing, with a focus in fiction, at Southern New Hampshire University and plans to continue her education to get her masters in Folklore and Mythology. She lives in a small town in Ohio and loves to spend her time out in nature with her two children and her husband. Prior to writing, Elvi was a dog trainer and an herbalist, owning her own online apothecary. Since then, she has been a stay-at-home mother to her twins and has written blog posts about what life is like as a parent to twins who were born at 24 weeks and all of the medical problems that come along with that and has written about her own struggles with mental health and living with multiple chronic illnesses. “Reading let me escape to new worlds when things were rough, and writing gave me the outlet to escape to my own new worlds.”
The cutest fall love story. I laughed and cried with Ell and it was truly amazing to watch her story progress. I’m dying to know more about what happened for her after college
I absolutely LOVED THIS BOOK! It was so sweet! You could definitely picture all the scenes, and it was just a beautiful book! There were so many characters to love, and some to dislike…but I’m so happy with how this book went!! I felt allll the feelings!