Beautiful Oblivion, book one of the Maddox Brothers series, also topped the New York Times bestseller list. Her follow-up novel, Walking Disaster debuted at #1 in all four categories of the New York Times bestseller list, a first in history for publisher Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with global sensation Beautiful Disaster. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Tech where she graduated with a degree in Radiography. The novel ends with Travis giving her an anniversary gift: a ring embedded with their children’s birthstones.Jamie McGuire, #1 New York Times and internationally best-selling author was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She even provides Travis with the evidence to prove this. Travis believes that Abby – math teacher and the mother of Travis’ twins and third unborn child – thinks he is an advertising executive, but she’s actually known his secret all along that, and the fact that Mick was actually working for Benny. Travis is an undercover FBI agent who, after years of investigation, has just closed his case on Benny, culminating in the bookie’s death. It’s the Maddoxes’ eleventh wedding anniversary. (Even though Abby seems to imply that she’s pregnant at the end of Beautiful Disaster, she is not).
After months of separation, during which Travis makes many attempts to win Abby back, the two reunite in a major way: by going back to Vegas to elope. But when Travis accepts Benny’s offer to “work” for him permanently, Abby breaks up with him. To win the rest, Mick’s bookie, Benny, has Travis participate in a professional fight, which he wins. Shortly after, Mick appears to ask Abby to help him clear up a gambling debt, so she heads to Vegas, only to fall slightly short of the money owed. Travis discovers that Abby’s estranged father is the legendary poker player Mick Abernathy, who blames his daughter for breaking his lucky streak when she turned thirteen and became a better gambler than he. But then he meets Abby Abernathy, who inspires him to take his mother’s advice more seriously: while Abby initially finds Travis repulsive, his relentless pursuit for her heart lands the two into an intense romance. As a college student, Travis is living a bastardized version of her advice: as a womanizing underground fighter. On her deathbed, his mother told him not to settle when he fell in love, and to fight for what he wanted. The book opens with Travis recalling the death of his mother when he was a very young boy.
In the sequel to Beautiful Disaster, Travis Maddox gets a chance to tell his side of the story. Quickie spoiler: Eleven years into the future, Travis is an undercover FBI agent and Abby is a math teacher they have twins and a third child on the way.
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