10 Books Like Twisted Love by Ana Huang

This is the next Twisted book, but it follows Rhys Larsen and Princess Bridget, not another chapter of Alex and Ava's romance. Rhys is Bridget's bodyguard; his job is to keep his distance just as her new royal duties make that distance harder to maintain. If Alex's fierce protectiveness and the risk around his relationship with Ava kept you reading, Rhys and Bridget offer a more public version of that tension. The obstacle is a throne and a forbidden relationship rather than Alex's private search for vengeance. Huang says the books can stand alone, though reading in order gives you the fuller series context.

Jasmine Santos's chance to keep competing in figure skating arrives through Ivan Lukov, the man who has irritated her for years. Their antagonism makes this a useful pick if you liked watching Ava get past Alex's icy manner, but the relationship grows through time spent working together on the ice. There is no fake-dating bargain here. Zapata gives the shift from rivalry to trust far more room than Huang does, and Jasmine's skating ambitions remain central rather than serving as a backdrop to a protective hero. Choose it for a very slow burn and sharp exchanges, with less of Twisted Love's suspense and danger.

Anastasia is a competitive figure skater aiming for Team USA; Nate captains the hockey team that suddenly has to share her rink. The forced proximity and a hero who steps in when she needs help may appeal if Alex's protective side was your favorite part of Twisted Love. But Nate is a teammate and college athlete, not a revenge-driven businessman, and the skating and team dynamics give this romance a more playful center. Anastasia has a demanding goal of her own, which keeps her from being defined only by the relationship. Try it when you want heat and friction in a lighter sports setting.

Olive's attempt to convince a friend she is dating becomes a pretend relationship with Adam Carlsen, a professor with a forbidding reputation. He turns out to be more supportive than his lab persona suggests. If you liked the contrast between Alex's cold exterior and what Ava sees beneath it, that turn is the connection. Olive's research career and friendships also give her life outside the romance. The bargain is that this is a campus rom-com: fake dating drives the plot, while Twisted Love uses family secrets and vengeance to make its relationship riskier. Go here for guarded-man tension without the darker suspense.

Dante Russo is another Huang hero who expects control to protect him. A blackmail threat pushes him into an engagement with Vivian Lau, whose family sees the marriage as a route into high society. That makes the power and wealth familiar to readers who were drawn to Alex, but Vivian's conflict is different from Ava's: she agrees out of family duty while trying to hold on to her own ambitions. King of Wrath begins the separate Kings of Sin series, so it is a new couple and a new starting point. Read it for Huang's intense relationship drama with an arranged marriage at its center.

Bree arrives in Pelion, Maine, carrying the aftermath of a violent loss. Archer Hale lives apart from the town, and their connection grows as she enters the quiet world he has built around himself. Like Ava and Alex, both have painful histories that shape how close they can let someone get. The comparison stops there: Archer's Voice spends more time on grief, communication, and a town's buried secrets than on an alpha hero pursuing revenge. Its suspense comes from uncovering the past, not from the same possessive power dynamic. Pick this when the emotional wounds in Twisted Love mattered more to you than its luxury or high heat.

Naomi arrives in Knockemout to help her estranged twin and ends up caring for a niece she did not know she had. Knox, a barber who wants a quiet life, keeps getting drawn into her problems. His resistance to involvement and eventual urge to protect Naomi echo one part of Alex's relationship with Ava. But Score gives Naomi a practical crisis, a child to care for, and a whole small town of people to deal with. That makes the stakes more communal and often funnier than Huang's secret-heavy romance. Choose it if you want a gruff hero and sharp banter with a warmer, messier setting.

Piper is sent from Los Angeles to help run her late father's bar in a Pacific Northwest fishing town, where sea captain Brendan assumes she will not last. His judgment gives her someone to push against while she works out what she wants from this unfamiliar place. If Ava's warmth against Alex's reserve was the attraction, Piper and Brendan give you another pair of opposites, with plenty of chemistry. The story is much more openly comic, though, and Piper's struggle is about belonging and independence rather than childhood secrets. Read it when you want a gruff romantic lead without Twisted Love's revenge plot.

The second Bellinger Sisters book stays in Westport but follows Hannah and Fox, not Piper and Brendan. Fox is used to being seen as a carefree flirt; Hannah wants to be his friend even as she is interested in someone else. Their growing closeness asks whether either of them can move beyond the role other people expect. That question may resonate if Ava seeing more in Alex than his cold reputation was what you liked. This is a friendship-first, slow-building romance with a lighter mood and no comparable vengeance plot. Start with It Happened One Summer if you want the sisters' stories in order.

Catalina needs a date for her sister's wedding in Spain after telling her family she has an American boyfriend. Aaron, the colleague who irritates her most, offers to play the part. The initial distrust and his unexpectedly helpful side make this a good fit if you liked Ava finding a way past Alex's forbidding first impression. But the engine here is a public performance for Catalina's family, not Alex's private secrets. Armas lets the antagonism soften slowly, with workplace friction and family comedy alongside the romance. Choose it when you want a guarded man and strong chemistry in a brighter, less dangerous story.