Taking Risks Books in Order

The Taking Risks series lets Toni Aleo step away from the rink and into an Irish setting full of whiskey, castles, and complicated family duty. These books read like modern fairy tales with a rough edge: there are princes and princesses of a sort, but their crowns are made of glassware and distillery ledgers.

The trilogy begins with Whiskey Prince, where a young woman used to doing what is expected of her finds herself face to face with the heir to a powerful whiskey empire. In a tight‑knit rural community, every step she takes is watched, and every choice seems to carry the weight of generations. Falling in love with a man at the center of that world means questioning traditions that were never designed with her happiness in mind.

Becoming the Whiskey Princess revisits the couple once the initial rush has faded. Marriage brings its own battles: clashing expectations, grief, and the struggle to balance private love with public responsibility to workers, land, and family legacy. The fairy tale edges up against real life, and the pair must decide what they are willing to change to keep both their relationship and the business intact.

In Whiskey Rebellion, Aleo pushes deeper into the emotional fallout of fame, trauma, and addiction within the same world. A character brought low by loss and bad decisions has to decide whether he wants to fight his way back from the edge, with help from someone who refuses to see him as a lost cause.

Throughout the series, the Irish backdrop is more than window dressing. Pubs, rolling fields, and old stone buildings give the stories a specific texture, and the sense of community is as strong—and intrusive—as any locker room. Themes of legacy, risk, and choosing your own path even when it means disappointing people you love echo what Aleo does in her sports romances, just in a different arena.

Taking Risks is a good fit for readers who like their contemporary romance with a hint of old‑world charm, big emotions, and characters who are trying to honor where they come from without being trapped by it.