Beautiful Disaster Jamie McGuire

Jamie McGuire is the author the contemporary international bestseller Beautiful Disaster. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, The University of Oklahoma, and Autry Technical Center where she earned a degree in radiography. She now lives in Enid, Oklahoma with her husband Jeff and their three children after growing up in Oklahoma. Jamie McGuire is also the author of the Providence series, Red Hill, a Beautiful Wedding, Walking Disaster, Beautiful Oblivion (the first in the Maddox brothers series), and Happenstance, which is a novella series. Beautiful Disaster is a 2012 New York Times bestseller, a 2013 international bestseller, and over one million copies have been sold worldwide.

In Beautiful Disaster, Abby Abernathy is a new found good girl. The new Abby doesn’t swear, doesn’t drink, and has just enough sweaters in her closet to fill her new good girl role. Abby goes to Eastern University with her best friend thinking her dark past is far behind her. That is, until she meets bad boy Travis Maddox.

Travis Maddox is fit, attractive, and covered in tattoos and is just the kind of person that Abby should stay away from. He spends his time as the walking one night stand of campus as well as fighting in a traveling fight ring. Travis is typically a successful charmer but Abby seems to be immune to his tricks, much to his dismay. Travis and Abby proceed to make a bet, as an attempt for Travis to get closer to Abby. What Travis doesn’t realize is that he may have met his match in Abby. The deal is, if Abby wins, Travis must remain abstinent for a month, and if Travis wins, Abby will have to move in with Travis for a month. Abby has to learn to watch her heart and her old self before she gets too close to Travis.

Jessica Park, author of New York Times bestseller Flat Out Love says, “Beautiful Disaster is insanely addictive. Beautifully sexy, beautifully intense, and beautifully perfect.” Beautiful Disaster is a must read for any reader who appreciates a story where love does not come easily. The characters have their flaws, but that is a point of the story that makes it that much more enjoyable. The real aspects of the characters gives the story the push and pull of many real life relationships that makes the reader never want to put the book down. Beautiful Disaster is a book worth the read.