Ana Huang Books

Ana Huang came up through self-publishing, and for a while she was simply one more contemporary romance author with a devoted readership and a growing backlist. That ended when BookTok discovered Twisted Love in 2021. The book, in which cold and calculating Alex Volkov falls for his best friend's sunshine little sister Ava, became one of the defining viral romances of the TikTok era. The four-book Twisted series that followed, each entry handing the story to another member of Ava's friend group, has now racked up over a billion views on its hashtag, a Netflix adaptation deal, and translations into dozens of languages. From self-published to global brand in roughly three years.

Her second flagship series, Kings of Sin, maps billionaire heroes onto the seven deadly sins. King of Wrath (2022) opens the set with Dante Russo and Vivian Lau in an arranged engagement neither will admit to enjoying, and the series has marched through Pride, Greed, Sloth, and Envy since. King of Gluttony arrives in April 2026, pairing restaurant empire CEO Sebastian with Maya, his old culinary school rival, and King of Lust is slated to close the series in 2027. She also launched Gods of the Game, a football romance line, with The Striker in 2024 and The Defender following in late 2025. By any commercial measure she is one of the most reliable hitmakers in romance right now.

What defines Huang is trope execution with machine precision. She knows exactly which fantasy each book is selling, billionaire possessiveness, forced proximity, grumpy devotion, only one bed, and she delivers it without irony or hedging. Her heroes are obsessive about exactly one woman and coldly indifferent to everything else, which is the entire appeal, and her heroines have careers, friendships, and enough spine to keep the power balance workable. The female friend group threading through each series is the secret ingredient: readers stay for the sisterhood almost as much as for the men.

Honest criticism, because she can clearly take it: the prose is serviceable rather than beautiful, the suspense subplots are consistently the weakest element, and Twisted Lies in particular drags whenever the plot interrupts the relationship. These are not books you read for sentences. They are books you read because Huang understands the assignment better than nearly anyone in the genre: the fantasy of being chosen, completely and a little frighteningly, by someone the rest of the world finds untouchable. On our 0 to 5 heat scale she is a dependable 4. Open door, frequent, explicit, and competently choreographed, with enough emotional connective tissue that the scenes feel earned rather than inserted.

Why does a contemporary billionaire author live on a romantasy shelf? Because the readership is the same readership. If your shelf runs From Blood and Ash, Zodiac Academy, and shadow daddies in general, Huang is what those books look like with the magic subtracted and a penthouse substituted. The possessive fae prince and the possessive billionaire CEO are the same archetype in different tailoring, and a large share of readers alternate between them like courses of a very indulgent meal.

Where to start: Twisted Love if you want the viral experience exactly as it happened, flaws and all. King of Wrath if you prefer arranged marriage and a more polished Huang, since Kings of Sin is the stronger series sentence by sentence. Every book follows its own couple to a firm happily ever after, so you can enter almost anywhere, though the friend group callbacks reward reading in order. Set your expectations to indulgence rather than literature and she will not let you down once. And if the Netflix series lands anywhere near the books' energy, expect the waitlists at your library to get considerably longer.