Title: Steel Beauty
A Beauty Series Novel
Trilogy: Alex and Magnolia #1
Author: Georgia Cates
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Billionaire Romance/Arranged Relationship
He Falls First/Secret Identity/Reclusive Hero
Release Date: April 29, 2025
BLURB
They agreed on three months… but neither expected to fall.
Alex Sebring is a former professional rugby star—and a man with nothing left to prove. Fame, fortune, and adoration were once his everyday normal… until injury ripped him from the game and the headlines turned brutal. Now, he lives in quiet exile.
No press. No relationships. No complications.
He’s content to lick his wounds in peace.
Until her.
Magnolia Steel is in Australia on a three-month work assignment. Just career focus… and maybe a little fun on the side. She never expects to connect with a stranger from behind a wall in a blind-dating suite. No faces. No names. Just voices—and something that feels dangerously real.
At the urging of his best friends, Jack and Laurelyn McLachlan, Alex proposes a deal: three months together, no expectations, no labels. But what begins as a simple arrangement turns into something far more complicated when hearts get involved.
They promised it would end when she left. But what if walking away is the one thing neither of them can do?
Sound familiar? Your favorite Australian caveman and his American girl return—a decade later—with a fresh twist on the love story that started it all.
Meet Alex and Magnolia.
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Magnolia’s time in Australia has an expiry date so she needs to focus on ensuring the success of the matchmaking company that brought her here and not on a match for herself however once Alex hears her voice he isn’t about to walk away.
Alex is at a crossroads at his life as the career he loved ended abruptly and he wants someone to spend his life with, but his attempts so far have been unsuccessful. He was drawn to Magnolia before he even met her and is willing to take what she will give while he tries to convince her they are destined for more.
This is the first instalment of Magnolia and Alex’s story, and it doesn’t disappoint. The heat between them is intense, the emotions heartfelt and the interactions between them are entertaining as the surprises unfold and leave us wanting more of this couple.
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AUTHOR BIO
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.
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