Taking Chances Books in Order

Part ofTia Louise Books in Order

See the Taking Chances books by Tia Louise in order, with quick summaries, reading order, series background, and help choosing where to start.

Last updated: June 9, 2026

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This Much is True

by Tia Louise

2020

After a drunken night changes everything, Hope ends up on the road with a furious single dad bent on revenge. The trip is messy, funny, and unexpectedly tender as attraction starts to outrun both common sense and old wounds.

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Trouble

by Tia Louise

2021

One kiss at a wedding tangles a struggling heroine with billionaire Spencer Carrollton, first as a client, then as a temptation she can't ignore. Their hot, complicated connection comes with power plays, danger, and plenty of reasons to run.

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Twist of Fate

by Tia Louise

2021

Childhood friends try to keep things platonic, but years of buried feelings and one life-changing twist make that impossible. It's a warm small-town friends-to-lovers romance with history, heart, and real consequences.

Series background & context

The Taking Chances books are some of Tia Louise's warmest and most accessible romances. They live in a small-town world near the coast, where everybody seems connected by family, friendship, old crushes, weddings, or one very unfortunate moment of bad timing. The mood is lighter than in her darker suspense series, but the feelings still land.

At heart, these are books about love showing up at exactly the wrong time.

This Much is True opens the series with a grumpy single dad, a heroine whose life has gone sideways, and a setup that quickly turns funny, tense, and unexpectedly tender. Twist of Fate moves into friends-to-lovers territory, pulling on shared history and small-town intimacy. Trouble adds more money and sharper edges, bringing a billionaire boss romance into the same connected world.

What links the books is the balance Louise strikes between chemistry and everyday stakes. Kids need stability. Jobs fall apart. Families meddle. Characters make impulsive decisions and then have to live with them in a place where no one stays anonymous for long. Even when the books get hot, they still feel rooted in real routines, real obligations, and real consequences.

The tone is playful, but not weightless. There are protective heroes, messy choices, and a steady undercurrent of suspense or emotional risk. Nobody gets to coast to a happy ending.

If you like small-town contemporary romance with recurring side characters, a little humor, a little heat, and a lot of heart, this series delivers. The books can stand alone, but reading them in order lets the town, and the people in it, build around you in a satisfying way.