Miles Moore is the kind of basketball player scouts travel for. Senior year, undefeated season, Duke on the horizon ? everything he has worked for is within reach. Then, in one night, it is gone.
Alexa Brooks has bled through enough satin pointe shoes to know that Juilliard doesn't hand out second chances. She is one audition away from the life she has sacrificed everything to build ? if she can stop clapping for someone else long enough to chase it herself.
They have been each other's anchor since childhood. But what holds you to the earth can also be the thing that keeps you from flying.
Set against the backdrop of Johannesburg, Atlanta, and New York City, Love Is Beautifully Painful is a dual-POV story of identity, sacrifice, and the kind of love that does not fix your wounds ? it sits inside them with you.
For anyone who has ever felt like a stranger in their own story.
