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Man Hands
The Man Hands series by Sarina Bowen has 4 known books (4 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with Man Hands (2017). The latest book with a fully recorded publication date is Man Cuffed.
- Books
- 4 known books (4 novels)
- Published
- 4
- First published
- 2017
- Status
- completed
- Last checked
Start here: Man Hands (2017) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
Man Hands
Man Hands, released December 11, 2017, opens the co-written Sarina Bowen/Tanya Eby rom-com series with a recently divorced recipe blogger dragged into a girls' night that puts her in the path of an unexpected new man.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Man Hands - Book 2:
Man Card
Man Card arrived just five weeks after the series opener, on January 15, 2018, running 244 pages as the story shifts to a new couple within the same friend group. Sarina Bowen and Tanya Eby keep the broad, over-the-top humor of their shared audiobook-narration background front and center rather than the slow-burn emotional stakes of Bowen's hockey series.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Man Card - Book 3:
Boy Toy
At 216 pages, Boy Toy (August 2018) is the shortest of the four Man Hands books, continuing the pattern of following different couples from the same small circle of friends in Sarina Bowen and Tanya Eby's broadly comic rom-com series.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Boy Toy - Book 4:
Man Cuffed
Man Cuffed (November 2019) closes the Man Hands quartet at 254 pages, its longest entry, arriving roughly a year after Boy Toy and wrapping up the loose friend-group continuity that ties Sarina Bowen and Tanya Eby's four standalone romances together.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Man Cuffed
About the Man Hands series
Man Hands is a broadly comic, non-hockey romance series Sarina Bowen co-writes with fellow author and audiobook narrator Tanya Eby. It opens with the title book, in which a recently divorced thirty-something who just wants to stay home and blog recipes gets talked into a girls' night out by her friends, only to run into her ex with his new date -- and into a man who very much is not her type but keeps turning up anyway. The follow-ups, Man Card and Boy Toy, move to new couples in the same small circle of friends, and Man Cuffed closes out the quartet.
Where Bowen's hockey and small-town series lean into slow-burn emotional stakes, Man Hands is pitched squarely at rom-com readers: broad humor, deliberately over-the-top titles and premises, and a lighter touch throughout, closer in tone to the two authors' shared background in comic audiobook narration than to Bowen's more literary contemporary work. Each book follows a different couple and can be read alone, though returning secondary characters give the four books a loose, friend-group continuity for readers who go through them in order.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Man Hands series?
Four: Man Hands (2017), Man Card (2018), Boy Toy (2018), and Man Cuffed (2019).
Who writes the Man Hands series?
Sarina Bowen co-writes the series with fellow romance author Tanya Eby.
What order should I read Man Hands in?
Publication order: Man Hands, Man Card, Boy Toy, Man Cuffed. Each book follows a different couple and stands alone.
Is Man Hands connected to Sarina Bowen's hockey books?
No -- it's a separate, unrelated friend-group romantic comedy series, tonally lighter and broader than her hockey or small-town series.
Is Man Hands a completed series?
Yes, all four books were published between 2017 and 2019, with no further installments announced as of August 2026.
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