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Cara Tanamachi

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Coming Soon

Coming October 2025

  

There’s No Good Book for This But I Wrote One Anyway. 

The Irreverent Guide to Crushing Breast Cancer


My life was turned upside down in 2023 when I was diagnosed with Stage 1, HER+ breast cancer. I had zero family history of cancer.  One double mastectomy, chemo, and a reconstructive surgery, later, and I went into remission in late 2024. I wrote this book to chronicle my own experience, but also help other warriors know they're not alone. 


This book is part memoir, part pep talk, part rant, and part screaming into the void.  This is the book I wish I had around when I’d been diagnosed. Hang on to your boobs (or not); it’s going to be a bumpy ride.


Half of book proceeds will benefit Susan G. Komen, so we end breast cancer. 

And buy a book, give a book. For every book sold, we donate one to a woman with breast cancer. 



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Cara Lockwood Books

Rom-coms

A dash of humor with your romance!

THe Dater's Handbook

  Cassandra Barber has a history of picking bad boyfriends…and she’s ready to change all that. She turns to The Dater’s Handbook, the bestselling self-help book by relationship expert Dr. Susie, to help with her ailing love life. Surely, Dr. Susie’s advice will help her choose between her two new suitors: the laid-back, fun-loving Robert, and the sophisticated, dependable George. 


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I Do (But I Don't)

 

Wedding planner Lauren Crandell  is always the planner, never the bride. But that might change when she meets sweet and sexy firefighter Nick, who seems hell-bent on fanning the flames between them. 

With her career and her love life on the line, the wedding planner just might learn that you can't plan everything, least of all true love.


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Movie based on the book!

Watch the movie streaming now on Amazon Prime! 

I Did (But I Wouldn't Now)

 In this fun spin-off of I Do (But I Don't), Lily Crandell (Lauren's younger sister) elopes with new beau and would-be rock star Ted Dayton. But just as quickly as his band skyrockets, Lily's marriage crashes and burns. 


When news of her ex's new love with sultry and silicone-enhanced actress Melanie Slate hits the tabloids, she flees the country and might just find true love... across the pond.


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The shark and I

They say there are plenty of fish in the sea, but nobody mentions the sharks!


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Pink Slip Party

Jane McGregor has just been laid off from her job designing pink slips for an office supply company. The irony is not lost on her. 


But when her brother's handsome, witty friend offers to help her job hunt... she discovers that she might have a bright new future in love.


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dixieland Sushi

 Jen Nakamura Taylor thought she left behind her awkward past of growing up half-Japanese American and half-white in a small Southern town named Dixieland when she moved north to produce a popular Chicago television show. But when she gets word that her Southern Belle cousin is marrying Kevin Peterson, the very boy Jen loved-with-a-capital-L for years, she realizes she can't run from her past forever.  


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In one year and out the other

 In this  sparkling collection of all new stories, Cara Lockwood puts self-improvement to the test with 528 resolutions -- not least of which is "Do not sleep with married men" -- in "Resolved: A New Year's Resolution List." 


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Steamy Lit

Harlequin Dare Series

no strings

 

“I want to worship you.”

With only one night, they have to make it count!

A one-night stand is out of the question... Until good girl Emma Allaire meets tall, dark and drop-dead gorgeous Mr. X through an anonymous hookup app and her sexiest fantasies come to life. Who is this enigmatic man in her luxury hotel room bed? Mystery lover, man of her dreams or liar—will he save her heart or break it forever? 


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look at me

 

“Want to do more than watch?”

Her hot new neighbor’s even hotter dare…

Chloe Park only meant to peek at him. Lean, hard and tattooed, Jackson Drake is hotness incarnate—and she can see right into his living room! Her sexy spectating drives them both near insane with lust. And with every wicked line they cross, Chloe falls harder for the bad boy next door… 


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first class sin


A sexy CEO…


…takes her to new heights!


Juliana craves intimacy in her lonely job as an airline consultant, and mysterious businessman Law seems the perfect remedy. After a lust-filled encounter at thirty thousand feet, their fling well and truly takes off. 


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first class sin


Asha Patel has a reputation for always getting what—and who—she wants. The moment the heiress and desi bombshell discovers the existence of the exclusive old-world Sphinx Society, Asha knows that she’s found yet another club that doesn’t want her. 


Which only makes her more determined to join.


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cuffs


He’s a suit. She’s a rebel. They’re complete opposites. But when it comes to lust at first sight, Mags will break her own rules. 

Just this once. Then she can go back to living her life by her rules and keeping control. But with every touch, Gael owns her body. With every kiss, he steals her breath.


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the love cure


Years ago, Liam Lange walked away from his family’s fortune and lived like a recluse. But everything changed after a wild night with a stranger. 


Was it the bed-breaking desire, the fact that they’d just met…or was it the woman herself?

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the sex cure


Playboy billionaire Wilder Lange is 100 percent sex. Women probably stand in line to worship him. But sex columnist and expert Harley Vega isn’t one of them. Especially since he bought her magazine and eliminated her job. Now he needs her help. 


Their crazy chemistry defies logic and soon Wilder shows her pleasure that makes her forget her own name. Is it even crazier to think they could bring this connection beyond the bedroom? 

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double dare you


 “I dare you to kiss me.”

Allie Connors should know better. The last time she kissed adrenaline junkie Liam Beck, the result was a no-holds-barred, hottest-of-the-hot shag-a-thon—followed by the fastest disappearing act ever. 


Now the mouthwatering, hard-bodied sex god is standing in front of her, daring Allie to kiss him. And, oh, how she wants to...

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hot mistake


Her best friend’s luxury wedding cruise is the perfect opportunity for a scorching-hot encounter. But Gabriela Cruz isn’t the one-night stand kind of girl—at least she didn’t used to be. 


Notorious bad boy Sebastian Lott was her high school crush and the hottest guy in school, and Gabriela was pretty sure he didn’t even know her name. But the successful lawyer is certainly noticing her now. 

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hot mistake


Her best friend’s luxury wedding cruise is the perfect opportunity for a scorching-hot encounter. But Gabriela Cruz isn’t the one-night stand kind of girl—at least she didn’t used to be. 


Notorious bad boy Sebastian Lott was her high school crush and the hottest guy in school, and Gabriela was pretty sure he didn’t even know her name. But the successful lawyer is certainly noticing her now. 

trick or treat novella


 L izzie—in her Madonna costume—is on her way to the mother of all ’80s Halloween parties when the most gorgeous man she’s ever seen—dressed as Maverick from Top Gun—tries to steal her ride-share car. Suddenly she’s letting herself do things in the back of that car that she’d never do in her usual buttoned-up librarian life. But will this chance hookup turn into something more? Or will fate keep their paths from crossing again?

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best men


A trio of stories all about weddings!

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Harlequin Romance

All the drama

her hawaiian homecoming

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the big break

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shelter in the tropics

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island of second chances


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practicing parenthood


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young adult

Bard Academy series

wuthering high

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the scarlet letterman

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Moby Clique

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a tale of two proms


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Paranormal romance

Dogwood Series

every demon has his day

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can't teach an old demon new tricks

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suspense

deadly game

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on the run

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in too deep

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closing in

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no turning back

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anthologies

everything i needed to know about being a girl I learned from judy blume

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it's a wonderful lie

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the girl who was on fire

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a new dawn

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ghostwriting

The Sweet Life: A Sweet Valley High Book

the sweet life

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Author photo by Meagan Shuptar. 


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