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Jamie McGuire

    6 novembre 1978

    Jamie McGuire est une pionnière du genre New Adult, avec des romans qui explorent les complexités des relations et les parcours émotionnels de ses personnages. Son style d'écriture se caractérise par une narration immersive qui entraîne les lecteurs dans des récits intenses. McGuire crée magistralement des protagonistes aux prises avec des démons personnels et en quête de rédemption, créant ainsi des œuvres à l'impact durable. Ses livres résonnent auprès des lecteurs par leur honnêteté brute et leur profondeur émotionnelle.

    Jamie McGuire
    Among Monsters
    Beautiful Sacrifice
    A Beautiful Funeral
    Something Beautiful
    Sins of The Innocent
    Beautiful - 1: Beautiful Disaster
    • Beautiful - 1: Beautiful Disaster

      • 441pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Travis Maddox est sexy, bâti comme un dieu et couvert de tatouages. Il participe à des combats clandestins la nuit, et drague tout ce qui bouge le reste du temps. Exactement le genre de mec qu'Abby doit éviter si elle veut reprendre sa vie en main. Mais Travis insiste et lui propose un pari.Si elle gagne, il renonce au sexe pendant un mois. Si elle perd, elle s'installe chez lui pour la même durée. Ce que Travis ignore c'est qu'il a affaire à bien plus joueur que lui ... Une fois toutes les cartes abattues, seront-ils vraiment prêts à suivre les règles établies ?

      Beautiful - 1: Beautiful Disaster
    • In the horror show of gods and monsters, Eden Ryel is the star. Conceived of her mother, a Merovingian--a direct descendant of Christ--and her father, the half-human son of a fallen angel, her very existence had prompted The Great War. Prophesied to be the Keeper of the Balance, Eden struggles to realize her purpose.Levi, the overconfident and charming half-human son of Lucifer takes nothing seriously. Not even when he finally meets the young woman who is destined to end his existence. A common bond is formed under the pressures they face from both sides, but their respective religious texts predict opposite outcomes. Either way, they must choose: war, death, or love.

      Sins of The Innocent
      4,6
    • Something Beautiful

      • 112pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      A novella about America and Shepley from the bestselling novel, Beautiful Disaster. America Mason, a sassy undergrad at Eastern State University, is in love with a Maddox-- Shepley Maddox. Unlike his cousins, Shepley is more lover than fighter, but a road trip to her parents' home in Wichita, Kansas could mean the next step, or the end of everything

      Something Beautiful
      4,4
    • A Beautiful Funeral

      • 238pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      "Losing has never been easy for a Maddox, but death always wins. Eleven years to the day after eloping with Abby in Vegas, Special Agent Travis Maddox delivers his own brand of vigilante justice to mob boss Benny Carlisi. Vegas's oldest crime family is now preparing for vengeance, and the entire Maddox family is in danger."--Page [4] of cover

      A Beautiful Funeral
      4,4
    • Beautiful Sacrifice

      • 270pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Place and date of manufacture taken from end of work and may differ between printings.

      Beautiful Sacrifice
      4,3
    • Among Monsters

      • 172pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Being thirteen has pitfalls of its own, but growing up has never been this hard. Jenna had promised her mother that if the worst happened during her dad's weekend, they would meet at Red Hill Ranch. When she finds seven words spray-painted on her dad's wall the morning after a deadly outbreak, she makes a promise to herself: to get to the ranch with her seven-year-old sister, Halle, and to get them both there alive. Among Monsters is the companion novella to Red Hill, both exploring from different perspectives what many broken families experience every other weekend: What if your children aren't with you when the world ends? What would you do to get to them? What would they go through to get to you? For Jenna, seeing her mother again is worth everything. Determined to keep her promise, she is faced with experiences and decisions that force her to leave her childhood behind

      Among Monsters
      4,2
    • Beautiful Burn

      • 294pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Fresh out of college, Ellison Edson has fallen through the cracks of rock bottom. While staying in her family's vacation home in Colorado, her behavior has finally gained the attention of her parents-but not in the way she hoped. Cut off from the millions she's always taken for granted, and left alone to fend for herself, Ellie spirals further out of control, making a mistake she can't take back. Like his twin brother Taylor, Tyler Maddox is a member of the Alpine Hotshots, fighting wildland fires on the frontline. As arrogant as he is charming, Tyler's nomadic lifestyle makes it easy to contain his relationships to one night. When he meets Ellie at a local party during off-season, her extreme personality and dismissive attitude fascinates him at first, but as his feelings deepen, Tyler realizes that the crippling inner demons of the woman he loves might be the strongest enemy any Maddox has ever faced.

      Beautiful Burn
      4,2
    • Camille Camlin works hard, tending the bar at The Red Door most weekends to remain independent from her father. After nearly a year, Cami finally has the weekend off so that she can visit her boyfriend, but then he calls to cancel and Cami's left with nothing to do ... Trenton Maddox was idolised by the masses at Eastern State University, but after a tragic accident turned his world upside down, he dropped out and moved back in with his father. Life is finally getting back to normal for Trent, working at a tattoo parlour to save up for his own place, until he comes across Cami sitting alone at a table in The Red Door ... With four rowdy brothers, Cami is convinced she'll be able to keep her friendship with Trenton Maddox strictly platonic. But when a Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever - even if Cami is the only reason that his already broken family might completely fall apart.

      Beautiful Oblivion
      4,2
    • Beautiful Redemption

      • 266pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      FBI Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox and FBI agent Liis Lindy go undercover to spare Thomas' brother Travis Maddox from a prison term by recruiting him into the FBI, but Liis wonders if her feelings for Thomas are more than just a cover story.

      Beautiful Redemption
      4,2
    • The Edge of Us

      • 465pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      "A story of a fiercely independent war widow who falls for a protective hotshot firefighter..."-- Back cover.

      The Edge of Us
      4,2