title: Something Beautiful: A Novella
author:  Jamie McGuire 
description: Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography. Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with the international bestseller Beautiful Disaster. Her follow-up novel, Walking Disaster, debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. Beautiful Oblivion, book one of the Maddox Brothers series, also topped the New York Times bestseller list, debuting at #1. In 2015, books two and three of the Maddox Brothers series, Beautiful Redemption and Beautiful Sacrifice, respectively, also topped the New York Times. Novels also written by Jamie McGuire include: apocalyptic thriller and 2014 UtopYA Best Dystopian Book of the Year, Red Hill; the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy; Apolonia, a dark sci-fi romance; and several novellas, including A Beautiful Wedding, Among Monsters, Happenstance: A Novella Series, and Sins of the Innocent. Jamie lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado with her husband, Jeff, and their three children. Find Jamie at www.jamiemcguire.com or on Facebook, Twitter, Tsu, and Instagram.
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  ALSO BY JAMIE MCGUIRE
  
  
  THE PROVIDENCE SERIES
  
  
  Providence
  
  
  Requiem
  
  
  Eden
  
  
  Sins of the Innocent: A Novella
  
  
  THE BEAUTIFUL SERIES
  
  
  Beautiful Disaster
  
  
  Walking Disaster
  
  
  A Beautiful Wedding: A Novella
  
  
  Something Beautiful: A Novella
  
  
  THE MADDOX BROTHERS BOOKS
  
  
  Beautiful Oblivion
  
  
  Beautiful Redemption
  
  
  Beautiful Sacrifice
  
  
  
  
  
  Apolonia
  
  
  
  
  
  Red Hill
  
  
  Among Monsters: A Novella
  
  
  
  
  
  Happenstance: A Novella Series (Books 1-3)
  
  
  
  
  
  Sweet Nothing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2016 by Jamie McGuire
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  Visit my website at [www.jamiemcguire.com](http://www.jamiemcguire.com)
  
  
  Cover Designer: By Hang Le, [www.byhangle.com](http://www.byhangle.com)
  
  
  Editors: Murphy Rae, [www.murphyrae.net](http://www.murphyrae.net), and
  Madison Seidler, [www.madisonseidler.com](http://www.madisonseidler.com)
  
  
  Interior Designer: Jovana Shirley, Unforeseen Editing,
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