King of Envy

Romance

Print length: 528 pagesBloom Books, 2025

Description

Vuk Markovic is a scarred billionaire who keeps nearly everyone at a distance—until he becomes obsessed with Ayana Kidane, the supermodel engaged to his oldest friend. Ayana’s glamorous engagement is actually a bargain: her fiancé needs the marriage to secure an inheritance, while she needs money to escape an abusive agency. Maintaining the public fiction grows harder as she is drawn to Vuk, whose intensity both comforts and frightens her. For Vuk, pursuing her means betraying the rare loyalty he still values; for Ayana, desire threatens the arrangement securing her freedom. When the wedding falls into chaos, their connection deepens under pressure from Vuk’s past, driving a dark romance about envy, possession, trust, and the dangerous difference between protection and control.

Reading profile

About this profile

Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Conversational · Descriptive · Direct

Pace

Moderate

Tone

Dark · Intimate · Romantic · Tense

Structure

Linear

Focus

Character · Plot · Relationships

Emotional intensity

4 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 2 / 5
Background knowledge: 1 / 5

Themes

FreedomFriendshipLoveObsessionPowerTrauma

About Ana Huang

Ana Huang writes contemporary and New Adult romance built around controlled protagonists, breached boundaries, and relationships complicated by danger, status, or duty. Her prose is direct and conversational, with dialogue carrying much of the friction and pacing. She often begins with a familiar romance device, then makes secrecy and unequal power part of the plot rather than mere backdrop. In Twisted Love, proximity and forbidden attraction develop alongside vengeance, childhood trauma, and suspense. Twisted Hate turns long-running antagonism into an enemies-with-benefits arrangement, using combative banter and explicit intimacy to expose vulnerabilities that its leads would rather conceal. King of Wrath moves the same interest in control into a world of wealthy families, where blackmail and an arranged engagement make courtship a strategic transaction. Huang’s heroines tend to have ambitions and obligations independent of romance, while her heroes are protective and frequently ruthless. She first posted fiction on Wattpad, then self-published and promoted her novels on TikTok. The Twisted series later went viral and was republished by Bloom Books.