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Books by Tani Hanes

Find rock star romances, swoony duets, plus-size heroines, haunted love stories, and big-hearted contemporary escapes.

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Books

Standalone Novels

Contemporary, paranormal, young adult, and music-world romances outside the numbered series.

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Operation Nanny

A Single Dad & Nanny Romance

Will the new nanny save a single dad with his hands full raising triplets, or will her dark secret tear his world apart?

Single dad
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Puppily Ever After

This was supposed to be Robin’s summer of fun before heading off to pursue her lifelong ambition of becoming a veterinarian at the prestigious Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. Instead, she finds herself nursing a broken heart after her boyfriend of three years ends their relationship. As if things...

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Peppermint Silk

A Reverse Harem Romance

Get an exclusive backstage pass to all the drama you’d expect from New York City’s hottest band on the verge of making it big.

Music
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Face the Stage

A Plus Size BBW and Enemies to Lovers Romance

Penny can’t stand her new co-star, but the stage has a way of melting even the hardest hearts.

MusicPlus-size heroineHaunted romance
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Finding His Touch

How can a woman afraid to be touched find a way to let a man into her world?

She’s petite and half Japanese, a doe-eyed sprite with dark secrets that keep her from engaging with the world. Smart and acerbic of wit, she’s learned how to keep herself safe, until she meets Nick Pensieri, who figures out how to breach her defenses.

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Rock & Roses

Meet Chiara Cavuto

When a tired rock star meets a larger than life gardener, there's more going on than strolls among the roses.

Music
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Sex, Drama, and The Art of Boyfriending

Whoever said "boyfriending is hard" clearly didn't have the right tools for the job.

She’s only fifteen, and astonishingly beautiful, and maybe a little bit spoiled by her adoptive dads, and everyone around her. She’s just been unceremoniously dumped because she won’t go all the way with her boyfriend when a new boy shows up on the first day of her senior year. He’s beautiful, too, and has a dreamy...

Young adult
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Her Own Private Celebrity

A Standalone Young Adult Romance

When she won a contest for a lunch with her idol, she had no idea she'd end up in a wild, secret fling that would shake her to the core.

MusicYoung adult
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Farraway Mist

A Haunted Love Story

Fans of Manderley should visit Farraway Mist, and discover for themselves why this book has been called a “modern spin on DeMaurier’s classic Rebecca.”

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Books

Cake Series

MJ and Heath's plus-size rock star romance, in reading order.

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More Than Cake: A Plus Size BBW Romance

Cake, Book 1

It's a big world, and MJ is a big girl trying to find her place in it. Can she handle a secret romance with the hottest rock star in the world?

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Another Slice of Cake: A Plus Size BBW Romance

Cake, Book 2

MJ has heard every name in the book. She’s been the tallest, the largest, the loudest girl in her class since Kindergarten, and she’s hated every minute of it. She has feelings like any other girl, and of course she has a massive crush on heartthrob singer Heath Spencer when she gets a job as a PA on his tour, but she...

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Sexy Swimmers

Jack and Kelsey's enemies-to-lovers sports romance duet.

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Glide: An Enemies to Lovers Sports Romance

Sexy Swimmers, Book 1

Jack LaGuardia is a serious swimmer, a serious student, a serious person. He eats, swims, studies, repeats. He has no time for frivolous things like dating, drinking, or parties. He certainly doesn’t have time for supermodel turned movie starlets like Kelsey Carlisle, who is basically a Victoria’s Secret underwear...

Sexy Swimmers #1
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Stroke

Sexy Swimmers, Book 2

He's a naive ranked college swimmer with a body to die for, and none of the usual jock baggage, but his inexperience gets in the way when a steamy romance is dropped into the middle of his life with a splash.

Sexy Swimmers #2

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New York Nanny

Mouse, Henry, and Leo's single-dad nanny romance, in reading order.

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Nanny For Two: A Single Dad & Nanny Romance

New York Nanny, Book 1

Martha “Mouse” Cameron has always felt she comes by her nickname honestly; she is quiet, shy, mousey in every way. But as soon as she meets Henry, she feels anything but mousey. Henry is the wealthy widower father of the boy she’s going to nanny for the summer in the heart of New York City, and sparks fly immediately...

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Nanny Reimagined: A Single Dad & Nanny Romance

New York Nanny, Book 2

Book two of the New York Nanny series finds Mouse preparing for graduation from NYU as she, Henry and Leo prepare for a wedding, and becoming a family at last. A pregnancy, and kindergarten for Leo, and many changes are on the horizon for the Gardeners. Following a romantic honeymoon in Bora Bora, however, they’re hit...

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Books

Growing Flowers

The Pete & Daisy family saga, from marriage of convenience through later family chapters.

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Pete & Daisy

Growing Flowers, Book 1

Daisy is a fun-loving college student at prestigious Columbia University, in New York City, who finds herself pregnant and alone. Pete is an exchange student from Italy with a chronic case of poverty. She needs a baby-daddy, he needs a place to live, so they decide to help each other out by engaging in the time-honored...

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Winter Flowers

Growing Flowers, Book 2

When we left them, their daughter had just been born, and some momentous decisions had been made. It’s now four years later. Their family has grown, as has their love for each other. Clio is a rocky smart, precocious four year old, and she’s been joined by baby sister Francie. Pete’s career as a musician is finally...

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Tuscan Blooms

Growing Flowers, Book 3

Pete and Daisy Santangelo are now parents to four lovely daughters, and Pete has settled into his life as a successful rock star and pop idol. Financial prosperity has found him, and the Santangelos live in luxury in a New York penthouse with Cina, their cat. Life is perfect, more or less. But this is Pete and Daisy,...

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Beach Blossoms

Growing Flowers, Book 4

Baby Finn has arrived, and Pete, Daisy, and their children are living the good life, enjoying the fruits of Pete’s labor as a musician and now an actor. They even have a dog, who found them in the middle of a snow storm. They are the quintessential American family, rolling through life together with love and humor. But...

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Books

U.K. Crush

The seven-book boyband romance series, in reading order.

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Living in the Shallows

U.K. Crush, Book 1

Aileen Foster, a shy, 22 year old student from LA, thinks she has landed a dream job as an interpreter for some actors making a film in Japan. She gets a surprise when she arrives in Tokyo and finds out that they are UK Crush, the hottest boyband around. She has been orphaned for most of her life, and it's a shock for...

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Diving Deep

U.K. Crush, Book 2

Aileen Foster, aka Tinker Bell the Bitchtastic, aka Birdie, has come to London to live with Theo Shelley, who is one quarter of UK Crush, the most popular boyband in the world, while she prepares for her piano audition to Hamilton Conservatory in New York. She's new to England, to relationships, to love, to life,...

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Learning to Fly

U.K. Crush, Book 3

Tinker Bell’s life has changed so much in the past six months. She’s gone from being a poor music student to the girlfriend of a member of one of the most successful bands in the world. In Learning to Fly, the third in the UK Crush series, she travels to New York City with Teddy to compete in the most important piano...

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Before the Tempest

U.K. Crush, Book 4

Aileen Foster, poor, orphaned, musically gifted, never imagined her life could change so much, so fast, but getting a job as interpreter for boyband UK Crush pitched her headfirst into tumult and a glamorous life she never thought she’d have. Now, engaged to band member Theo Shelley, and having survived her audition to...

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Surviving the Hurricane

U.K. Crush, Book 5

Birdie has met the boys of UK Crush, fallen in love with Teddy, and become engaged to him in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge. She’s accompanied the boys to the Bahamas while they write their new album, and settled in to her new life as the significant other of a world famous rock star. Now, due to cataclysmic events...

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I Cried to Dream Again

U.K. Crush, Book 6

Birdie’s life is nearly unrecognizable from what it was when she met the boys of UK Crush. What was once a fairy tale, a love story, a romance worthy of being a movie, has morphed into a nightmare, an unending stream of one trauma blending into another. Her dreams of being a concert pianist, a mother, even a happy...

U.K. Crush #6
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Thousands of Candles

U.K. Crush, Book 7

Birdie has come such a long way from the shy and introverted young woman who met Geth, Ronan, Matthew, and Teddy on that fateful day in Tokyo so long ago. She’s traveled the world, auditioned for music school, gotten engaged on a world-famous landmark, and been happier than she ever imagined she could be. She’s also...

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Books

Collections

Duets, bundles, and complete anthologies for readers who want the whole arc together.

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Duet collection

A Whole Lotta Cake

Meet Meadow Rain “MJ” Jassemolada

The swoon-worthy 'A Whole Lotta Cake' Duet is now available on Amazon in a new Dreamy Double-Shot collection

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Duet collection

New York Nanny

Meet Martha "Mouse" Cameron

The swoon-worthy 'New York Nanny' Duet is now available on Amazon in a new Dreamy Double-Shot collection

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Duet collection

Sexy Swimmers

Meet Jack LaGuardia

The swoon-worthy 'Sexy Swimmers' Duet is now available on Amazon in a new Dreamy Double-Shot collection

Sexy SwimmersSeries collection
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Series collection

Growing Flowers

She needs a baby daddy. He needs a place to stay.

Through four novels and numerous bonus chapters, our favorite couple and children learn to cope with an old flame, a stalker, wrenching loss, and simply growing up. Ten years pass from beginning to end, but the time flies by as everyone gets older and, hopefully, a little wiser in this loving and rollicking family...

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Anthology

U.K. Crush: The Complete Anthology

Four guys, one girl, and Rock & Roll

Join the U.K's hottest boy band and the girl who captured their hearts over a seven book tempest of emotions culminating in the happiest of ever afters.

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Books

Memoir

Tani's historical family memoir.

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Memoir

Obachan

A Young Girl's Struggle for Freedom in Twentieth-Century Japan

Stories of love, courage, and connection.

Historical