Below is the complete list of Rachel Hanna’s Whiskey Ridge books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Whiskey Ridge Books
About Whiskey Ridge
Rachel Hanna’s Whiskey Ridge series is a clean small-town romance sequence set in the fictional mountain community of Whiskey Ridge, Georgia. The core series consists of five books: Starting Over, Taking Chances, Home Again, Always a Bridesmaid, and The Billionaire’s Retreat. Hanna’s official reading-order page notes that Whiskey Ridge is the exception among several of her series because the books can be read in any order, while the complete ebook bundle presents all five titles as standalone romances set in the same Blue Ridge Mountains town.
That structure gives Whiskey Ridge a different rhythm from Rachel Hanna’s more sequential women’s fiction lines, such as South Carolina Sunsets or Sweet Tea B&B. The pleasure here is not following one family or one heroine through a continuous life arc, but returning to the same mountain setting for a new couple, a new conflict, and a new version of emotional renewal. Whiskey Ridge works as a shared romantic world: cozy enough to feel familiar, flexible enough that each book can stand alone.
Starting Over introduces the tone through Kelly, who arrives in Whiskey Ridge after a painful breakup and opens a spa in the lower floor of a historic home. Her search for calm is immediately disrupted by Quinn, the karate instructor upstairs whose noisy classes disturb the peace she is trying to build. The premise uses a classic enemies-to-lovers setup, but its deeper appeal is the contrast between two people carrying private wounds while clashing over the life they each hope to create.
Taking Chances moves the series into inheritance, family legacy, and forced proximity. Piper Williams, a struggling single mother from South Georgia, unexpectedly inherits an apple orchard in the North Georgia mountains, but the gift comes with a condition: she must share the property for six weeks with Cameron, the previous owner’s distant grandson. Their opposing temperaments create both practical and romantic tension, making the orchard a test of trust, compromise, and whether a fresh start can survive daily conflict.
In Home Again, Hanna leans into second-chance romance and the ache of returning to a place one meant to leave behind. Emmy comes back to Whiskey Ridge after divorce and financial ruin, only to face Nash, the first love who broke her heart when he left to pursue rodeo dreams. Now injured, Nash needs Emmy’s help as the town’s physical therapist, turning professional duty into an emotional reckoning with the past.
Always a Bridesmaid uses fake engagement and wedding-season pressure to bring Samantha, a successful attorney with a broken engagement behind her, together with Dr. Tucker Ellison, the town’s new veterinarian. When Samantha impulsively claims she is engaged to save face in front of her ex-fiancé, Tucker steps into the role, and the pretend relationship begins to challenge her conviction that love is no longer meant for her.
The Billionaire’s Retreat closes the five-book grouping with another second-chance-flavored premise, linking a long-ago encounter on a rain-soaked Blue Ridge bridge to a present-day conflict over a yoga and wellness studio. The story pairs emotional memory with business pressure, as a successful man returns with reasons to hide both his identity and his intentions from the woman whose retreat he may be expected to acquire.
Although the Whiskey Ridge books are standalone, publication order still gives readers a natural way to experience the setting as Hanna introduced it. The series is best suited to readers who want clean romance, mountain atmosphere, enemies-to-lovers friction, fake relationships, second chances, family pressure, and small-town softness without heavy darkness. Whiskey Ridge offers comfort, but not emptiness: its couples are usually trying to rebuild something practical as well as emotional, whether that means a business, a home, a future, or the courage to believe that love can still arrive after disappointment.