Meet the characters written by Jessa Hastings. Hastings is an Australian native who now lives in Tennessee with her husband; two children; her beautiful, clingy dog; and two cats-which is one more than the last time she wrote one of these. She spends a lot of her time in London, which is still her favorite city in the world. Other current favorites are Bluey, Jenni Kayne cardigans, Galaxy Minstrels, and Gracie Abrams’s “The Secret of Us” album. Magnolia Parks was her debut novel and is the series that changed her life and made way for all this. She is very grateful.
A Comprehensive List of Jess Hasting’s Books
Magnolia Parks Universe
Jessa Hasting is well known due to her Gossip Girl-esque book series following Magnolia Parks and Daisy Haites. The series is often described as messy but heart crushing at the same time. If you are looking for something to fill the Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf shaped hole in your hear then this is the series for you.
This series comes in two cover sets. The first being the original collection and the second being the shoe collection.
Magnolia Parks
9781398717206 | Orion | TPB
‘How many loves do you get in a lifetime?’
She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite.
He is Britain’s most photographed bad-boy who broke her heart.
Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it.
She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of their every sad endeavour to get over one another, it’s still each other they crawl back to.
But now their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they’ve built; a world where neither has ever let the other go completely.
As the cracks start to show and secrets begin to surface, Magnolia and BJ are finally forced to face the formidable question they’ve been avoiding all their lives: How many loves do you really get in a lifetime?
Daisy Haites
9781398717213 | Orion | TPB
All 20-year-old Daisy Haites has ever wanted is a normal life, but as the heiress to London’s most notorious criminal empire, it’s just not on the cards for her.
Raised by her older brother Julian since their parents were murdered, Daisy has never been able to escape the watchful gaze of her gang-lord brother. But Julian’s line of work means that Daisy’s life is… complicated.
And things don’t become any easier when she falls hard for the beautiful and emotionally unavailable Christian Hemmes, who also happens to be one of the few men in London who doesn’t answer to Julian.
Christian’s life is no walk in the park either, since he’s in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Magnolia Parks.
He’s happy enough to use Daisy to throw off the scent of his true affections – until she starts to infiltrate those too.
As their romance blossoms into something neither were anticipating, Daisy, Christian, and Julian must come to terms with the fact that in this life everything comes at a price. As their relationships intersect and tangle, they all learn that sometimes life’s most worthwhile pursuits can only be paid in blood.
Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home
9781398717220 | Orion | TPB
HOW MANY LOVES DO YOU GET IN A LIFETIME? AND ARE MAGNOLIA AND BJ EACH OTHER’S?
It’s been nearly a year since everything happened between Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine on the steps of the Mandarin Oriental, and it seems like everything since then has changed.
Magnolia has a life in New York now and BJ appears to have finally let go and moved on.
But when they both wind up back to London and are thrust together once again, they find themselves asking their age-old question: how many loves do you actually get in a lifetime, and most importantly – are they each other’s?
Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing
9781398717237 | Orion | TPB
“It’s the great undoing of my heart as I know it.”
Daisy Haites thought she’d left everything about her old life in the past: the crime, her family and the man she loves. But when her safety is threatened once again, she finds herself back under the watchful eyes of her gang-lord brother Julian and her ex-boyfriend Christian, both desperate to keep her safe.
Everything gets more complicated when beautiful, broken-hearted socialite Magnolia Parks enters the scene and Julian finds himself entangled with her. Because for Julian, falling in love isn’t just unwelcome – it could be deadly for everyone involved . . .
Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark
9781398721746 | Orion | TPB
How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are in the stars, but is that enough?
Magnolia and BJ are reeling from a devastating loss as they try to plan what’s been dubbed ‘the wedding of the century’. As family tensions mount and their respective pasts begin catching up to them, they finally have to look the truth in the eye: Can they learn to trust and be with one another again, or will they die trying?
Never
If you’re a massive fan of the Peter Pan series or if you’ve ever wondered about Wendy and Peter Pan’s relationship then look no further than Never by Jessa Hastings. Her take does not follow Wendy necessarily but her descendants.
Never
9781398722347 | Orion | TPB
THE BRAND NEW FANTASY ROMANCE FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MAGNOLIA PARKS
“There is a boy of legend in the tales passed down in my family. He glides on the coat-tails of the sun, rides the wind, and freedom runs through his veins. His heart – so the legend goes – is wild.
The boy lived in a faraway land tucked behind a star, where pirates were still true, mermaids didn’t hide, and fairies flew through the air like autumn leaves on a windy day. He took my mother there, just like he took my grandmother, and my great-grandmother.
Just as he would come for me.”
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Swept away from her life in London to a place beyond the stars, Wendy’s granddaughter Daphne is torn between the boy of legend – Peter Pan, whose fate is irrevocably intertwined with her family’s – and Jem Hook, the pirate who has captured her heart against all her better judgement.
Filled with hope and heartbreak, beauty and betrayal, dreams and devastating reality, Never asks: Can we ever be free while we’re holding on to the past? And what would happen if – just once – we truly let go?
The Conditions of Will
The Conditions of Will does contain a small crossover with Magnolia Parks Universe. If you are looking for an emotional read then this is the book you need to pick up.
The Conditions of Will
9781398725812 | Orion | TPB
London-based Georgia Carter, professional lie-detector and body-language savant, has long been estranged from her infuriating, close-minded, wealthy South Carolina family. After a falling-out years ago, the chasm runs deep between the black sheep – Georgia and her gay, alcoholic brother – and their parents and elder siblings. But when their father dies suddenly, Georgia returns to the States for the funeral … where she comes face-to-face with Sam Penny, her brother’s AA sponsor.
Amid the tensions, dramas and revelations of the family reunion, Georgia and Sam are instantly drawn to each other.
However, Georgia’s brother also harbours feelings for Sam, and the last thing Georgia wants to do is hurt the only family she’s ever really had.
When their father’s will reveals a surprising bequest to a mysterious stranger, Georgia’s ability to read people becomes crucial in unravelling her father’s hidden past. The delicate balance within the family teeters, and secrets – both old and new – threaten to push them beyond the breaking point.
There are only so many cracks a damaged family can take before it shatters.
