Open Tab Books in Order

Open Tab, also known through its setting as the Whiskey Springs series, is Nancy Ann Healy in small-town mode. The first book introduces Fallon Foster, the woman at the center of Murphy's Law, a local pub in Whiskey Springs, Vermont. Fallon knows everyone's stories, hears everyone's confessions, and has built a life around being useful, generous, and just a little larger than life. What she does not have is lasting love.

Then Riley Main arrives. Riley is a widow with a young son, carrying grief and trying to build something new far from the life she expected to keep. Their meeting gives the series its opening romance, but Open Tab does not stay narrowly focused on one couple for long. Like a lot of Healy's best work, it expands into a community story.

The town becomes part of the relationship.

That is a huge part of the appeal. Whiskey Springs is not just a backdrop. The bar, the regulars, the friendships, the old history, and the sheer small-town closeness all shape what the characters can and cannot hide. Love here is never entirely private. People show up. They interfere. They help. They gossip. They become family.

The titles trace that growing world nicely. Open Tab starts the emotional account. Cigar Club moves into trust and past hurt. Night Cap and After Hours lean into late-night honesty, stronger ensemble ties, and the sense that the town itself is getting more layered. Later, Last Call suggests the kind of return readers hope for in a beloved small-town series, one more visit with the people whose lives have become intertwined.

The tone mixes warmth with real pain. Grief matters here. So does betrayal, the difficulty of starting over, and the challenge of making room for love when life has already gone off script. But the books are not bleak. They are community-driven, affectionate, and full of the kind of found-family energy that makes readers want to linger.

If you like romance that feels lived in, this is a strong place to start. Begin with Open Tab and read forward. The bar may be the gathering place, but the real draw is the growing circle of people who keep finding their way back to each other.