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Reading Order - Twisted
Ana Huang
💕 Ava Chen & Alex Volkov · Bridget von Ascheberg & Rhys Larsen · Jules Ambrose & Josh Chen · Stella Alonso & Christian Harper
The series that turned Ana Huang into a BookTok phenomenon and the perfect gateway into her whole universe. Four best friends, four dangerously intense men and four stories that stand on their own, but are twice as good together. Ava falls for her brother's best friend, an ice cold genius who lives for revenge, Bridget is a princess who falls for the bodyguard sworn to protect her, Jules strikes an enemies with benefits deal with her best friend's brother, and Stella ends up fake dating the mysterious billionaire who lives one floor above her. Possessive heroes, secrets that blow up, seriously good smut and an HEA in every book, besties, there's no way you'll stop at just one.
Reading style · Interconnected standalones
Each book can be read on its own, but characters appear across stories.
Editor's note: These are interconnected standalones, each book follows a different couple from the same friend group, and the author herself says they can be read on their own. Still, I recommend going in publication order, because each book spoils the ones before it and the couples show up before it's their turn, so by the time you get to their story you're already dying for it. Christian, for example, appears in Twisted Hate as the owner of the building where Stella and Jules live. Twisted Hate also gives us a glimpse of Dante Russo, who later stars in King of Wrath, the first book in Kings of Sin. Ana Huang has confirmed that all of her books exist in the same universe, so Twisted is the best starting point before moving on to Kings of Sin. The series is complete.
Reading order
#1Twisted Love
Ana Huang
💕 Ava Chen & Alex Volkov
Alex Volkov has the face of an angel and a heart of ice, a business genius who lives for success and for a revenge that has haunted him since childhood, when he witnessed the murder of his entire family. Ava Chen is his complete opposite, a free spirit who finds beauty in everything, even though she's plagued by nightmares from a childhood she can't remember. When Josh, Ava's brother and Alex's best friend, leaves and puts Alex in charge of protecting her, Alex becomes her neighbor, her savior and the one man she shouldn't want. As they grow closer and share their deepest traumas, the attraction becomes impossible to ignore, until revelations about their past threaten to destroy them both and everything they love.
✓ Can be read as a standalone
⚠ Content warnings
New adult romance with suspense, brother's best friend and grumpy x sunshine. Abusive parents, child abuse, attempted murder by drowning in childhood, aquaphobia and panic attacks, death and violence, mentions of suicide, possessive and morally gray hero, explicit sexual content with a degradation kink.
#2Twisted Games
Ana Huang
💕 Bridget von Ascheberg & Rhys Larsen
Rhys Larsen is an elite bodyguard, stoic, broody and arrogant, with two rules he has never broken: protect his client at all costs and never get emotionally involved. Until he's assigned to Bridget von Ascheberg, a princess as stubborn as he is, with a hidden fire that burns every one of his rules to ash. Bridget dreams of the freedom to live and love as she chooses, but when her brother abdicates she becomes heir to a throne she never wanted and faces the prospect of a loveless, politically convenient marriage. While navigating the intrigues of her new role, she has to hide her feelings for the one man she can't have, her bodyguard. An unexpected, forbidden love that could destroy a kingdom and doom them both.
✓ Can be read as a standalone
⚠ Content warnings
Royal bodyguard romance. Gun violence, mentions of child abuse, mentions of death and drug overdose, age gap, possessive alpha hero, explicit sexual content.
#3Twisted Hate
Ana Huang
💕 Jules Ambrose & Josh Chen
Josh Chen is gorgeous, cocky and on the fast track to becoming a hotshot doctor, and there isn't a woman alive who can resist him, except Jules Ambrose. The redhead, his sister Ava's best friend, has driven him up the wall since the day they met, yet he can't get her out of his head. Jules, a former party girl now focused only on passing the bar exam, has no time for an insufferable doctor, no matter how good looking he is. When the tension between them explodes into one unforgettable night, he proposes an enemies with benefits deal with simple rules: no jealousy, no strings attached and absolutely no falling in love. But the more they get to know each other, the more layers they uncover, and when the demons from their past catch up with them, they'll face truths that could save them or destroy everything they've built.
✓ Can be read as a standalone
⚠ Content warnings
Enemies to lovers with suspense and a best friend's brother romance. Abusive parents, blackmail, death of a parent, death of a minor (brief scene), mildly dubious consent in one scene, sexual harassment, stalking, explicit sexual content.
#4Twisted Lies
Ana Huang
💕 Stella Alonso & Christian Harper
Charming, deadly and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in perfectly tailored suits. He has little use for morals and even less for love, but he can't deny the pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. Stella Alonso is sweet, shy and introverted despite her social media fame, a romantic who keeps her heart under lock and key and who, between her two jobs, has neither the time nor the desire for a relationship. When a threat from her past comes back to haunt her, Christian breaks his own rules and offers her a deal she can't refuse, move in with him and fake a relationship. By his side she feels protected and truly wanted for the first time in a long time, but what they have is tangled in secrets and lies that, once they come to light, could shatter everything.
✓ Can be read as a standalone
⚠ Content warnings
Dark romance with suspense. Alzheimer's, anxiety, death and graphic violence, death of a parent, emotionally abusive parents, kidnapping, mention of suicide, stalking and cyberstalking, obsessive hero, explicit sexual content.
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