About Tamara

Tamara Mapstead writes contemporary romance about women who have been underestimated, talked over, and told to be smaller — and the love stories that finally let them take up space.

Her debut novel, Embracing Calla, follows a woman untangling herself from a narcissistic relationship while learning that being cared for isn't the same as being controlled. Tamara writes the hard middle of healing as honestly as she writes the butterflies, and she never skips the happy ending.

On the blog she shares excerpts, character deep dives, and the research behind the harder themes in her books — from gray-rocking a narcissist to why a "trophy wife" is rarely the villain of her own story.