Daisy Haites

Daisy Haites is the second installment in Jessa Hastings’s Magnolia Parks Universe series. The series includes five titles: Magnolia Parks (2021), Daisy Haites (2021), Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home (2021), Daisy Haites: The Great Undoing (2022), and Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark (2024). Hastings originally self-published Magnolia Parks, and it was subsequently republished by Orion Fiction in the UK in 2022. The release of Magnolia Parks launched the Magnolia Parks series. This initial title also establishes the parameters of the Magnolia Parks Universe and introduces the central relationships, conflicts, stakes, and themes for all four subsequent titles.

In Magnolia Parks, Hastings alternates between Magnolia Parks’s and BJ Ballentine’s first-person points of view. London socialite Magnolia Parks falls in love with BJ, “Britain’s most photographed bad-boy lothario” (“Books.” Magnolia Parks Universe). Although Magnolia and BJ seem like they are meant to be together, the romantic counterparts can’t help but hurt each other. The more affairs they have, the more they’re forced to question what true love means.

In Daisy Haites, Hastings shifts to Daisy as the primary protagonist with Magnolia as a secondary character.