Books like 'Twisted Roots'

Readers who enjoyed Twisted Roots by V.C. Andrews also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

romance  horror  mystery  psychological  supernatural  gothic  drama  family  classics  suspense 

  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The truth is out there...The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah...
  • Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet

    Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She just wants to be loved… by the one man who is not capable of feeling it. A CUTE PSYCHO Charming and unpredictable, Vlad Kuznetsov is known as the joker of the underground world. Known to many yet known by none, he is a true social chameleon. His feigned affability might present him as inoffensive but his inner demons could unleash a bloodbath at any time...
  • Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scarlett Lattimore arrives at Lilith House, an abandoned mansion built in 1876, that later housed a reform school for troubled girls, to start a new life with her seven-year-old daughter...
    Categorized as:
    family  ghosts  gothic  suspense  abuse  adult  angst  animals
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims. He's no ordinary cop...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  dark
  • Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Vol. 7 by Eiji Mikage

    The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Vol. 7 by Eiji Mikage

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the final volume of The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Kazuki makes his last stand against O to fulfill his vow to bring back the "zeroth" Maria-the real Maria. But what does fate have in store for them..
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence...Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Blood Sins by Kay Hooper, Joyce Bean

    Blood Sins by Kay Hooper, Joyce Bean

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Young, vulnerable, attractive, Tessa Gray made the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit recruited her to play the role of grieving widow. As the supposed new owner of property coveted by the Church of the Everlasting Sin, she’d be irresistible bait for the reclusive and charismatic Reverend Samuel...
  • Jessamine by Shani Struthers

    Jessamine by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The dead of night, Jess, I wish they'd leave me alone."Jessamin Wade's husband is dead - a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him 'alive' in her imagination - talking to him every day, laughing with him, remembering the good times they had together...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  adult  book  fiction  hauntings  historical  horror  mystery
  • Grave Matter by Karina Halle

    Grave Matter by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Horror Romance meets science fiction in this dark and delicious gothic psychological thriller by NYT bestseller Karina Halle, perfect for fans of Gothikana, Ninth House, and Mexican Gothic. Aspiring mycologist Sydney Denik is getting a second chance...
    Categorized as:
    gothic  suspense  ghosts  romance  horror  dark  paranormal  sci-fi
  • Deadly Little Lessons by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Lessons by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Camelia Hammond's trying junior year of high school is finally over...but her troubles aren't. After she discovers a painful truth about her family, she escapes to a summer arts program in Rhode Island. Determined to put family - and boyfriend - drama behind her, she throws herself into her artwork.At the arts school, she gets caught up in the case of Sasha Beckerman, a local girl who is missing...
  • Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    High school junior Camelia thought her powers of psychometry only gave her the ability to sense the future through touch. But now she’s started to hear voices. Mean voices. Berating her, telling her how ugly she is, and that she’d be better off dead...
  • Demon Hunts by C.E. Murphy

    Demon Hunts by C.E. Murphy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she's ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. Literally.She's proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That's more than even she bargained for. What's worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.There is.She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.She should.She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.She will now.Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.Retribution has arrived...
  • The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake

    The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This island alone boasts more ghost stories than all of Louisiana combined.And I'm one of them. In the Louisiana swamplands, ghost stories are as much a part of childhood as chasing fireflies and crawfishing. They never much scared me, though, nor the possibility of evil out to do me harm. Until the night I watched shadows come to life and butcher everything I loved...
    Categorized as:
    gothic  steamy  suspense  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine

    The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Before you follow the path into your family’s history, beware of the secrets you may find…The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career and now the death of her father. She is now faced with the daunting task of clearing his house...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  crime  female-mc
  • Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper

    Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    THIS KILLER DREAMS IN SHADES OF DEATH... He’s the kind of killer we instinctively fear the most. A killer without boundaries, without conscience, without any fear of being caught. And his latest victim is terrifying proof that no one is safe: the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator...
  • Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What if you could enter a madman's cruel mind as he planned his vicious crimes? What if you could see the terrified faces of his victims ... Psychic Cassie Neill helps the LA police catch killers — until she makes a terrible mistake and an innocent child dies...
  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.It can.She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is.She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong...
    Categorized as:
    drama  ghosts  suspense  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark  death
  • Saving Mercy by Abbie Roads

    Saving Mercy by Abbie Roads

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's found her at last...Cain Killion knows himself to be a damaged man, his only saving grace the extrasensory connection to blood that he uses to catch murderers. His latest case takes a macabre turn when he discovers a familiar and haunting symbol linking the crime to his own horrific past—and only one woman could know what it means.Only to lose her to a nightmare..
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Harbinger by Ann-Marie Davis

    The Harbinger by Ann-Marie Davis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NOTE: This is not a PNR, Fantasy, Supernatural, or anything of the like. It is a contemporary, cult romance with demon/Satan worship. What do you do when you’ve caught the eye of a psychopath?On the run with no memory, Mia is thrust into an evil, secret society which threatens her very existence...
  • A Grave Calling by Wendy Roberts

    A Grave Calling by Wendy Roberts

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There had been no attempt to bury the dead girl, naked except for the white ribbon tied to her wristTwenty-five-year-old Julie Hall has a unique ability: when she takes up a dowsing rod, she finds not water but bodies. To Julie, it's a curse, not a gift, and one she rarely uses—she prefers her quiet life in a trailer, with her grandfather and her dog for company...
  • Salem's Fall by Rektok Ross

    Salem's Fall by Rektok Ross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A hotshot young attorney. An enigmatic billionaire accused of murder. To uncover the truth, she’ll have to play his game—and try not to fall in love with the devil. James Woodsen is used to being underestimated. Top of her class at Harvard Law, she’s brilliant, beautiful, and now the youngest female associate at Boston’s most elite criminal defense firm...
  • Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Last fall, sixteen-year-old Camelia fell for Ben, a new boy at school who had a very mysterious gift – psychometry, the ability to sense the future through touch. But just as Camelia and Ben's romance began to heat up, he abruptly left town. Brokenhearted, Camelia has spent the last few months studying everything she can about psychometry and experiencing strange brushes with premonition...
  • A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu

    A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    View our feature on Marjorie Liu’s A Wild Light.For too long Maxine Kiss has felt an inexplicable darkness inside her-a force she channels into hunting the demons bent on destroying the human race. But when she finds herself covered in blood and crouched beside her grandfather's dead body with no memory of what happened, Maxine begins to fear that the darkness has finally consumed her...
  • Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    High school juniors Camelia and Ben have discovered a powerful bond: They both possess the power of psychometry, the ability to see the future through touch. For Ben, the gift is a frightening liability. When he senses a strong threat or betrayal, he risks losing control. Camelia's gift is more mysterious. When she works with clay, her hands sculpt messages her mind doesn't yet comprehend...
  • Wicked Lies by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush

    Wicked Lies by Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    If At First You Don't SucceedFor two years, Justice Turnbull has paced his room at Halo Valley Security Hospital, planning to escape. Justice has a mission-one that began with a vicious murder two decades ago. And there are so many others who must be sent back to the hell that spawned them. . .Kill. .
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror
  • Shattered Silk by Barbara Michaels

    Shattered Silk by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Killer Lurks In her quaint vintage clothing boutique in picturesque Georgetown, Karen Nevitt' s laces and white linens seem so innocent. Her aunt' s aged friends have even ransacked their attics to help the novice entrepreneur launch her business...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  demons
  • On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine

    On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The eagerly awaited new novel by the author of LADY OF HAY and HOUSE OF ECHOES is the story of a woman trapped in the wrong time. Abandoned by her twentieth century lover, she plots a terrible revenge on him and his family. Adam Craig is fourteen when, near an isolated Celtic stone in the wild Scottish Highlands, he meets Brid, whose exotic, gypsy-like dress and strange attitudes fascinate him...
  • Sleep With The Lights On by Maggie Shayne

    Sleep With The Lights On by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull.Her cynicism wavers when a cornea transplant restores her sight...
  • The Bones of Others by Vickie McKeehan

    The Bones of Others by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some monsters live in your head. Not this one.Brutalized as a young girl by a vile sexual predator, Skye Cree is a survivor. Guided by the visions of her mystical spirit guide to the whereabouts of abducted girls, she uses her unique abilities to turn her horrifying past into a positive force for justice...
  • Séances are for Suckers by Tamara Berry

    Séances are for Suckers by Tamara Berry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When something goes bump in the night . . . it’s most likely a plumbing problem, or something equally mundane. But fake medium Eleanor Wilde is happy to investigate and cleanse your home of spectral presences—for a fee. Hey, it’s a living . . . Ellie has an ailing sister to care for, and working as a ghost hunter who doesn’t believe in ghosts helps cover the bills for both of them...
  • The Blake Soul by I.C. Camilleri

    The Blake Soul by I.C. Camilleri

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Josh Blake wakes up to the sound of the chilling scream echoing inside his head. His childhood nightmares are haunting him again. But why return now after all those years of oblivion? He sets out to investigate and he changes the natural course of events, rewriting destiny and creating a whole new world for himself and for those around him...
  • The Haunting of the House on Greenpond Road by Abigail Rose

    The Haunting of the House on Greenpond Road by Abigail Rose

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A paranormal phenomenon, a mysterious curse, and an old town with a sinister past.When Amber finds a miraculously low-priced house for rent, what she thought was the solution to all of her problems becomes the beginning of her worst nightmare...
  • Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everything in Ben's life was perfect. He had it all. The good career. The perfect partner, Evan. The happy home. They were even talking about turning the extra bedroom into a nursery.But things start to splinter. Evan begins missing time, not knowing where he was or how he got there...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  drama  steamy  ghosts  romance  mlm  dark  paranormal
  • School for Reluctant Witches by Auburn Tempest, Carolina Mac

    School for Reluctant Witches by Auburn Tempest, Carolina Mac

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Take the best blend of action/adventure, urban fantasy, and witch magick, add in a dash of murder and mayhem, some New Orleans flavor, and you're left with a fun, rollicking read you won't want to put down. Mystere LeJeune isn't only a witch--she's THE witch. Her family's magick roots weave deep into the rich soil and boggy swamps of the New Orleans paranormal community...
  • The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood

    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. Charlie St. Cloud lives in a snug New England fishing village...
  • Out of Sight by K.C. Wells

    Out of Sight by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Detective Gary Mitchell and psychic Dan Porter have a new cold case to tackle, and new leads to research in the hunt for Gary’s brother’s killer. Their life in Boston has settled into a comfortable rhythm...
  • Thrum by Meg Smitherman

    Thrum by Meg Smitherman

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls himself Dorian, she’s welcomed onto his ship as he offers his assistance in any way he can. But nothing on Dorian’s ship is as it seems...
    Categorized as:
    gothic  suspense  romance  horror  sci-fi  fantasy  aliens  space
  • Tuesday's Child by Dale Mayer

    Tuesday's Child by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What she doesn't want...is exactly what he needs. Shunned and ridiculed all her life for something she can't control, Samantha Blair hides her psychic abilities and lives on the fringes of society. Against her will, however, she's tapped into a killer-or rather, his victims. Each woman's murder, blow-by-blow, ravages her mind until their death releases her back to her body...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror
  • The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright

    The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Outstanding Debut Novel from an Author to Watch Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather's Wisconsin hometown...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  ghosts  gothic  suspense  21st-century  adult  audiobook
  • River of Destiny by Barbara Erskine

    River of Destiny by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Time’s Legacy and Lady of Hay comes a thrilling new novel, River of Destiny, an epic story that spans Anglo Saxon Britain, Victorian Suffolk and the present day.Perfect for fans of Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth.An Anglo Saxon burial ground that must not be disturbed.A Victorian tragedy of forbidden love...
    Categorized as:
    epic  ghosts  suspense  21st-century  adult  book  europe  fiction
  • The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

    The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body...
    Categorized as:
    drama  gothic  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  dark  fiction
  • Hollowed: A Sleepy Hollow Reimagining by Jessica S. Taylor

    Hollowed: A Sleepy Hollow Reimagining by Jessica S. Taylor

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing is ever as it seems in Sleepy Hollow…Sleepy Hollow is crumbling. To protect the supernatural town from the mundane world, each year a resident is sacrificed to The Dullahan, the Headless Horseman that protects the veil around the Hollow.Nineteen-year-old Katrina van Tassel knows she’s a disappointment to her parents, for more reasons than one...
  • Possessive Alpha-Daddy & Virgin by Izzie Vee

    Possessive Alpha-Daddy & Virgin by Izzie Vee

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A STEAMY OTT INSTALOVEAmanda is running ... running away as far as she can from her past.When she ran into oversized Mike, she immediately set him on fire.She wanted to give him something special, her purity.But he knew he was way too big for her...
  • Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase

    Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here's a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall.Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers ..
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  ghosts  gothic  suspense  audiobook  book  coming-of-age
  • House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Meg Rittenhouse fears she is losing her mind. The doctors tell her the strange and disturbing hallucinations she's been experiencing ever since her accident are all in her head, and that, with a little rest, the haunting visions will vanish. But accepting an invitation to stay with her cousin in the country may be the worst decision Meg has ever made...
  • Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

    Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood. Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family's decaying plantation—the site of so many painful childhood memories—to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke...
Fantastic book recommendations by book lovers for book lovers.
Find out more about thebooknaut.com.



Looking for more inspiration? Enter another book title to get more suggestions on what to read next.


Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.