Twisted Love
He has a heart of ice … but for her, he'd burn the world. Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can't escape. Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart. But when he's forced to look after his best friend's sister, he starts to feel something in his chest: A crack. A melt. A fire that could end his world as he knew it. Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can't remember. But despite her broken past, she's never stopped seeing the beauty in the world … including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn't want. Her brother's best friend. Her neighbor. Her savior and her downfall. Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen - but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both … and everything they hold dear. Twisted Love is a brother's best friend/opposites attract romance with a hint of suspense. It's book one in the Twisted series, but can be read as a standalone. WARNING: This book contains a possessive alpha/antihero, explicit sexual content, and profanity.
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Georgetown freshman Ava Chen has spent years staying away from her older brother Josh's icy best friend Alex Volkov, the orphaned heir to a Russian-American hedge fund.
Yes. Twisted Love is an explicit dark new adult romance. Most readers rate it 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is the entry point to the Twisted series and known for its possessive, brooding male lead.
Yes. Twisted Love is an explicit dark new adult romance. Most readers rate it 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is the entry point to the Twisted series and known for its possessive, brooding male lead.
The Twisted series by Ana Huang has four main books, all featuring different couples in interconnected stories: Twisted Love, Twisted Games, Twisted Hate, and Twisted Lies. Each can be read as a standalone, though they share a friend group and side characters.
Yes. Twisted Love is a romance and follows the genre convention of a happily ever after for the central couple. It is not a tragic or open-ended story.
Twisted Love is dark romance with morally gray and possessive male leads. It draws on tropes such as forced proximity, brother's best friend, and obsessive love. Ana Huang's series is one of the most-read dark romance entries on BookTok.
Twisted Love was written by Ana Huang, published in 2021 by Sourcebooks, Incorporated.
Twisted Love is 358 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Twisted Love takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
Twisted Love is a standalone novel by Ana Huang, not part of a series.
Twisted Love is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
