Twisted Games

Romance

Print length: 454 pagesAna Huang, 2021

Description

Rhys Larsen has built his career as an elite bodyguard on vigilance, control, and strict emotional distance from every client. Princess Bridget challenges those rules with her stubbornness, hidden passion, and longing for a life beyond royal obligation. Their attraction is already dangerous when her brother’s abdication places an unwanted crown before her, along with the prospect of a politically arranged marriage. As Bridget learns to carry new public responsibilities, she and Rhys must conceal a relationship that violates professional boundaries and threatens consequences beyond themselves. The novel combines contemporary royal fantasy with bodyguard romance, setting private desire against duty, succession, and national expectation. Its tension comes from two disciplined people discovering that restraint cannot make their choices harmless.

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 · Dialogue-driven · Direct

Pace

Measured

Tone

Earnest · 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

FreedomIdentityLoveMarriagePowerWork

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.