Twisted

About the Twisted series

Ana Huang's Twisted series is one of the defining BookTok romance phenomena — four interconnected, steamy new-adult romances following a tight-knit friend group as each finds a love story that upends her carefully ordered world. Twisted Love opens the series with Alex Volkov, a brooding, morally gray hero with a dark past, falling for his best friend's sunshine-bright little sister Ava. From there the series hands the mic to Ava's circle: royal bodyguard romance in Twisted Games, explosive enemies-with-benefits in Twisted Hate, and fake dating laced with suspense in Twisted Lies.

The series' calling card is trope-forward romance executed with maximum feels: brother's best friend, grumpy-sunshine, forbidden royal romance, enemies-to-lovers, fake relationship — each book is practically labeled with its trope, which is exactly why readers hunting a specific fix keep finding their way here. Underneath the tropes runs a warm found-family thread; the group-chat energy between the four heroines is as much a draw as the heroes.

Expect high heat (these are open-door, explicit romances), possessive-but-devoted heroes, and emotional backstories that earn the happily-ever-afters. It is an ideal series for readers who loved Colleen Hoover's intensity but want more spice, or who arrived from Elle Kennedy and Penelope Douglas territory. Completed at four books, with each couple getting a definitive ending, Twisted is a low-risk, high-reward binge — and a natural gateway into Huang's follow-up series, Kings of Sin, set in the same universe.