Jessa Hastings

Jessa Hastings is an Australian-born author now living in Tennessee whose contemporary romance novels have built a passionate global following. She spent much of her life in London, which she considers her favourite city in the world, and its streets feature prominently in her fiction. Hastings is best known for the Magnolia Parks Universe — a series of interconnected novels about beautiful, wealthy, damaged people caught in intense, messy love stories in London's elite social circles. The series became a viral sensation on BookTok and has sold in huge numbers. The Conditions of Will represents a shift in her writing, combining family drama with romance and a touch of mystery as a body-language expert returns to her estranged wealthy Southern family after her father's death, where she meets her brother's AA sponsor. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers emotionally intense, darkly romantic fiction about complicated people making questionable decisions — love stories that refuse to be neat, tidy, or easily resolved.