Magnolia Parks Universe
How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Gossip Girl but make it British and mafia-esque.
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1. MAGNOLIA PARKS by Jessa Hastings
SYNOPSIS
She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain’s most photographed bad-boy lothario who broke her heart. But Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it. They’re in the stars... just suspended in a strange kind of love that looks like hurting each other a lot of the time: 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 their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they’ve built; a world where neither has to 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?
2. DAISY HAITES by Jessa Hastings
SYNOPSIS
All 20 year old Daisy Haites has ever wanted is a normal life, but it’s just not on the cards for her. Raised by her older brother Julian since their parents were murdered in front of them 12 years ago, Daisy hasn’t ever lived beyond 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 less complex when she falls hard for Christian Hemmes, the beautiful and emotionally unavailable boy she’s been involved with for the last few months, 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, being in love with his best friend’s girlfriend and all… He’s happy enough to use Daisy to throw off the scent of his true affections, that is until she starts to infiltrate those too.
As their romance blossoms into something neither were anticipating, Daisy, Christian, and Julian each have to 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.
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3. THE LONG WAY HOME by Jessa Hastings
SYNOPSIS
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, 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 others?
4. THE GREAT UNDOING by Jessa Hastings
SYNOPSIS
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…
5. INTO THE DARK by Jessa Hastings
SYNOPSIS
How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime? Everyone knows by now that Magnolia and BJ are in the stars, but is that enough?
Reeling from a devastating loss, Magnolia Parks’ life is once again thrown into disarray. The person who held her entire family together is gone, and suddenly secrets are unravelling and tensions are high as Magnolia and her fiancé, BJ Ballentine, plan what’s been dubbed ‘the wedding of the century’.
Things aren’t going all that well for BJ either. Desperate to prove he’s no longer the man who hurt Magnolia through their long years apart, BJ fights an uphill battle as he tries to bring their relationship into a healthy place. But with mounting secrets between them and their pasts finally coming to a head, there’s only so much a relationship can handle.
As Magnolia and BJ’s love story hurtles to its inevitably dramatic conclusion, these two will finally learn whether they’ll actually be together forever, or die trying.