Every Beautiful Thing

A sweeping contemporary romance about a restless travel nurse, a love that carried them across the world, and the one thing motion couldn't outrun.

By: Jimi Farris

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Twenty-eight years old, and Constance Malloy has never once chosen her own life.

She's good at her job. Good at the smile she's practiced since she was fifteen — the one that answers when is it your turn? without ever letting anyone see the cost. In Millhaven, the track was laid before she knew she was standing on it, and everyone she loves is happy with where it goes.

So she does the one reckless thing she's ever done. She books eight days on the Danube in the dead of December and invites the last person on her list: Tutty, the sharp, unsinkable grandmother she barely knows.

She doesn't plan on the shipful of strangers who slowly become something like a family — a boxer-turned-priest, an old man carrying his grief like a second coat, a woman in expensive cream who can wound with a single glance at the wrong shirt.
And she absolutely does not plan on him.

He introduces himself badly — and then asks the wrong questions, which turn out to be the only real ones anyone has asked her in years. He's easy where she is guarded, certain where she is careful, warm in a way she has no defense against. And Constance has one unbreakable rule after the last time she let herself want something out loud: no chasing.

But the river only moves in one direction. Somewhere between Passau and Vienna, under a winter sky bigger than anything back home, Constance is going to have to decide whether a life you can account for is the same as a life you actually chose.

Every Beautiful Thing is a tender, slow-burn love story about family, self-discovery, and the quiet courage of reaching for more — the kind of book that makes you want to notice every beautiful thing in your own life.
Perfect for readers who love:

• Emotionally rich, character-driven slow-burn romance
• Sweeping, travel-soaked love stories
• Unforgettable grandmothers and the family we choose
• Romance that takes its sweet, aching time
• The heart of Emily Henry, the sweep of Nicholas Sparks, and the emotional depth of Taylor Jenkins Reid

A standalone contemporary romance. Deeply emotional. Unforgettable.