American Beauty: Alex and Magnolia 2

Georgia Cates

May 2025 · The Beauty Series Book 5 · Georgia Cates Books, LLC

About this ebook

True love stories never end. But they can be interrupted.

Magnolia Steel returns home from Australia, but her heart is still tangled up in Alex Sebring—the former rugby star who made her believe in something real.

Real enough to try the impossible––long distance.

The time zones are brutal. The distance, worse.

But they make a promise—to hold on, even when everything else tells them to let go.

Until someone in the shadows pulls the strings.

Two messages.

Two lies.

Two broken hearts—each left believing the other walked away.

For Alex, the silence becomes unbearable. The heartbreak. The what-ifs. It all spirals into a storm of anxiety and depression he can’t outrun.

Then—hope. A chance to reclaim the life he lost.

A shot at a professional comeback. One last opportunity to fight for the game torn away from him. To take it, he’ll need surgery.

The procedure brings him to the States… and back into the path of the woman he never forgot.

The heat between them hasn’t faded.

If anything, it burns hotter than ever.

They weren’t meant to fall apart. But they’ll have to fight like hell to come back together.

Tropes and Themes (Potential Spoilers)

   •    Billionaire Romance

   •    Arranged Relationship

   •    Damaged Alpha

   •    Damaged Heroine

   •    Second Chance

   •    Long distance Relationship

   •    Protective Hero

   •    Possessive Hero

   •    Redemption Arc

Reading Order for The Beauty Series––

Beauty from Pain –– Available Now

Beauty from Surrender –– Available Now

Beauty from Love –– Available Now

Steel Beauty –– Available Now

American Beauty –– Available Now

Beloved Beauty –– Available July 15, 2025

Ratings and reviews

This book picks up from Steel Beauty so please read that one first. Magnolia Steel has returned to the US but is determined to make a success of her relationship with Alex Sebring even if it means a long distance one. Miscommunication causes issues but Alex decides to fly to the US to sort things out. I liked that both are determined to fight for their relationship despite outside influences trying to destroy it.

About the author

Georgia Cates is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author—and a former labor and delivery nurse who now delivers swoony love stories instead of babies. A lifelong reader and proud cat wrangler of three, she writes romance with heart, heat, and a dash of Southern charm. Originally from rural Mississippi, she’s married to her best friend and is the proud mom of two amazing daughters.