Beautiful Disaster
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate percentage of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend America, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand. Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the charming college co-ed. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his charms, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’ apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.
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At Eastern University, sheltered freshman Abby and tattooed campus heartbreaker Travis make a bet over an underground fight that lands her sleeping at his apartment for a month and falling against her better judgment.
Yes. Beautiful Disaster contains explicit on-page romance, around 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. The novel is also known for its toxic-relationship themes that have divided readers.
Yes. Beautiful Disaster contains explicit on-page romance, around 3 to 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. The novel is also known for its toxic-relationship themes that have divided readers.
Jamie McGuire's Maddox Brothers series begins with Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster (the same story from Travis's perspective), then continues with Beautiful Oblivion, Beautiful Redemption, Beautiful Sacrifice, and Beautiful Burn, each focused on a different brother.
Beautiful Disaster was written by Jamie McGuire, published in 2011 by Atria Books.
Beautiful Disaster is 10 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Beautiful Disaster takes most readers under an hour to finish.
Beautiful Disaster is a standalone novel by Jamie McGuire, not part of a series.
Beautiful Disaster is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
