”I’m not a jealous man, Stella. I have never envied someone for what they have or who they’re with, and yet…” My fingers glided down to her wrist. “I’m jealous of every person you smile at…” A brush over her fingers. “Every laugh I don’t hear…” My touch dipped to her knee and made a slow, languorous journey up her thigh. “Every breeze that touches your skin and every sound that pours through your lips. It. Is. Maddening.”

Stella Alonso is an assistant at a fashion magazine, D.C. Style, and a social media influencer with a dream of one day designing her own fashion line. Delamonte, the luxury brand she’s been dying to work with since she started her blog, invites her to a dinner that’s a pseudo-tryout to be their new influencer ambassador. When Stella is fired from her job, and is therefore unable to pay her former nanny’s rent for an assisted living facility, she knows that she has to land that deal with Delamonte to stay afloat. Her agent tells her that she needs to increase her audience in order to compete with the other influencers up for the job. She’s sooo close to hitting one million followers and will do anything to reach it. Even getting a fake boyfriend.

I would throw myself into her flame and let it burn me alive if it meant her warmth was the last thing I felt before I died.

Christian Harper is the CEO of Harper Security and the landlord of The Mirage, the apartment complex in which Stella lives. He needs someone to join him at the numerous events he’s obligated to attend and agrees to help Stella in exchange for her company. He’ll also use this time together to figure out why he can’t get his downstairs neighbor out of his mind. Stella is his biggest distraction and weakness, which could prove fatal for both of them.

”I’ve never wanted someone more, and I’ve never hated myself more for it.”

Christian has many secrets and soon finds out that Stella has secrets of her own, namely a stalker that has resurfaced after two long years of silence. Can the security buff help the social media star find her stalker? Or is the call coming from inside the house?

♡The Good♡
- Ana Huang my god.
- The angst in this book was GOD TIER.
- HE CALLS HER BUTTERFLY. I actually have never heard anything cuter in my life. My jaw dropped when he said it for the first time. I’m so going to make my next boyfriend call me Butterfly.
- Christian is so much better at describing his feelings for Stella than the other boys were. I honestly think Ana Huang just wrote Christian better.
- I need a Dante/Vivian story ASAP
- I loved loved LOVED how the epilogue tied all four stories together.

♡The Bad♡
- I wasn’t a huge, huge fan of the conflict
- Also I thought I knew who the stalker was the WHOLE BOOK and I was wrong, but I fr think my idea was better than who it actually ended up being lol.

♡The Playlist♡
I do not know why, but I got major 80s rock power ballad vibes from this whole series
♪ Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen
♪ Animal (Fuck Like A Beast) - W.A.S.P.
♪ Why Can't This Be Love - Van Halen
♪ Is This Love - Whitesnake
♪ Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
♪ Home Sweet Home - Motley Crue

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♡THE SERIES♡
Ava Chen, Princess Bridget von Ascheberg of Eldorra, Jules Ambrose, and Stella Alonso are four best friends that met their freshman year at Thayer University when they were assigned to live in the same dorm. The series takes place over several years during which the girls fall in love with Alex Volkov, Rhys Larson, Josh Chen, and Christian Harper, respectively. All books involve morally gray heroes and pseudo-fantasy-level conflict. I would consider all of these books dark romances due to some of the graphic nature of certain plot points. Read all trigger and content warnings here.

Twisted Love: ☆☆☆
Twisted Games: ☆☆☆☆.5
Twisted Hate: ☆☆☆☆.5
Twisted Lies: ☆☆☆☆☆