Demons After Dark (ONC 2026)

🏆 ONC 2026 ENTRY Main Prompt: 52
🏆 ONC Long List Qualifier
🥇 Winner (Dark Romance): The Rogue Muse Awards
🥇 Best Plot Twist: The Spring Fling Awards
🥇 Winner (Paranormal Romance): The Love Letter Legacy
🥇 Best Plot Twist, Mystery/Thriller & Romance - F.L.A.R.E Awards
🏅 Best Blurb & Character Names: The Fantasy Vortex
🥉 Unique Concept: Best of Wattpad Awards
🥉 Best Horror/Thriller: Inked & Unwritten Awards
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After Dark is supposed to be just another dating app.

For Amelia, a museum curator exhausted by one bad date after another, it feels like a final attempt before she gives up on romance entirely. For Alexei, it's never been about dating at all; he's been sent to get close to her because of an artefact tied to something old and dangerous.

But as their meetings turn strange and violent, Amelia realises the city she thought she knew is hiding secrets far darker than a failed love life. And somewhere in between, Alexei finds himself losing control of the one thing he was meant to keep in check:

His distance from her.

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Tropes: Supernatural/Paranormal Adventure, Slow-Burn Romance, Forced Proximity, Are they or Are They Not Together?, Morally Grey MMC 💋, 1/3 Body Horror, 1/3 Gore and 1/3 Sexually Explicit

Inspirations: DMC, JJK, BB, Dante's Inferno

Fun things (16/3, 5/5: Ranked #1 on demonology)

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