Joya Goffney 3 Book Set - Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl & more

This three-book set brings together novels by Joya Goffney: Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry, Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl and My Week with Him. Across the collection, each story centres on a teenage protagonist whose carefully controlled life is unsettled by events they can no longer avoid.

Private fears, family expectations and relationships run through all three books, with lists, secrets and difficult choices shaping what follows. From spring break plans to the pressure to appear “perfect”, the collection considers what happens when personal truths surface and characters are pushed to face what they have been trying to keep hidden.

Included titles

• Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
• Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl
• My Week with Him

Key details

• Three-book collection
• Novels by Joya Goffney
• Includes three individually titled books

Synopses

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

Quinn records lists for everything, including moments she has ugly cried and truths she will not say aloud. When her journal goes missing and an anonymous Instagram account posts one of her lists, she is blackmailed into facing seven of her biggest fears or risk the journal being shared publicly.

Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl

Monique seems to have an ideal life as a preacher’s daughter and girlfriend of the town’s golden boy. Privately, she feels caught between her parents’ expectations and her boyfriend Dom’s wish to explore a more intimate relationship. After he ends the relationship, Monique learns she has a medical condition and decides on a plan to “fix” her body and win him back.

My Week with Him

Nikki’s relationship with her mum is strained, and when she becomes homeless at the start of spring break, she plans to leave Texas for California to pursue a music career. Her best friend and long-time crush, Malachai, convinces her to spend spring break with him instead. When Nikki’s little sister goes missing, their plans unravel and Nikki is forced to confront her feelings about her mum and Mal.