Twisted Games
2021
- romance
- contemporary romance
- romantic suspense
- new adult romance
- forbidden love
- bodyguard romance
- dark romance
- enemies to lovers
- slow burn
- angst
The story
She can never be his…but he’s taking her anyway. Stoic, broody, and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: 1) Protect his clients at all costs 2) Do not become emotionally involved. Ever. He has never once been tempted to break those rules…until her. Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak that matches his own and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She’s nothing he expected and everything he never knew he needed. Day by day, inch by inch, she breaks down his defenses until he’s faced with a truth he can no longer deny: he swore an oath to protect her, but all he wants is to ruin her. Take her. Because she’s his. His princess. His forbidden fruit. His every depraved fantasy. *** Regal, strong-willed, and bound by the chains of duty, Princess Bridget dreams of the freedom to live and love as she chooses. But when her brother abdicates, she’s suddenly faced with the prospect of a loveless, politically expedient marriage and a throne she never wanted. And as she navigates the intricacies—and treacheries—of her new role, she must also hide her desire for a man she can’t have. Her bodyguard. Her protector. Her ultimate ruin. Unexpected and forbidden, theirs is a love that could destroy a kingdom…and doom them both. Twisted Games is a contemporary royal bodyguard romance. It’s book two of the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone. Warning: This book contains a possessive hero, explicit content, and profanity.
What it’s like
Sleek and heated rather than soft: the prose is clipped and interior, moving between close-third perspectives in a fictional European principality of gilded palaces, black SUVs idling under sodium streetlights, and quiet corridors where tension hangs in the stillness. The mood is charged, glossy and a little feverish, like late-night scrolling with the lights off, with an undercurrent of royal intrigue and dread about what duty will cost. Pacing is fast in the banter and slow-burn in the glances, with long stretches of want held back before it breaks. The emotional register runs from prickly sparring to raw possessiveness, and the arc follows a guarded bodyguard who unravels under a princess who refuses to be managed. Intensity is high: explicit sexual content, frequent profanity, and a possessive, domineering hero whose behaviour is meant to be read as dark and unsettling, with some suspense-driven danger but no gore. Not gentle. Best for readers who want a steamy, angsty forbidden-romance binge with a royal backdrop and enjoy morally grey, controlling heroes.
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