Romance After Dark Playcast
Where Love Takes Center Stage... and Passion Ignites
Step into the shadows where romance burns brightest. Welcome to Romance After Dark, your gateway to the captivating worlds crafted by the talented authors of Qandy Shoppe Studios.
What awaits you in the darkness:
- Paranormal Romance that will make your pulse race with supernatural desire
- Contemporary Love Stories exploring the complexities of modern relationships
- Sleepy Time Romance perfect for dreamy late-night listening
Each episode is your invitation to escape into stories where love conquers all—whether it's battling ancient curses, navigating workplace tension, or finding solace in gentle, soul-soothing tales.
Perfect for:
- Romance devotees hungry for their next obsession
- Curious newcomers ready to discover what all the fuss is about
- Anyone seeking stories that celebrate love in all its beautiful forms
- Night owls who believe the best stories unfold after dark
So dim the lights, pour your favorite drink, and wrap yourself in something cozy. Let us seduce you with tales of passion, connection, and happily-ever-afters that will leave you breathless.
Ready to fall under our spell? Subscribe now and join our community of romance lovers who aren't afraid to embrace their darker desires.
New tales of romance and adventure arrive Tuesday and Thursday at 12pm/ET.
Connect with fellow romance fans, share your favorite steamy reads, and become part of our after-dark family.
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Episodes
44 episodes
The Garden of Remembering
Bellamy Thorne has always been restless and always heard things others didn't. Raised by his grandmother in a quiet English village, he's been warned since childhood to stay away from his great-uncle's abandoned garden behind its towering iron ...
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The Starfish Blessing
On the misty shores of Makah land in Washington, seventeen-year-old Talon watches his grandmother return stranded starfish to the sea and dismisses the effort as pointless, until her answer reshapes how he sees the world. That night, something ...
The Clockmaker
Three months after her mother's funeral, Ava Martin carries a stopped pocket watch into a narrow Parisian clock shop she's never noticed before. The horologist, Grayson Bellamy, opens the jammed case with ease and recognizes something in the en...
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The Garden Heart
Louanne presses marigold seeds into the soil and tries not to think about the doctor's words — damaged tube, other options. She and Marco have tried everything: timing charts, acupuncture, IVF. All of it failed. Now there's one frozen embryo le...
The Song of the Shell
Irene has always heard what no one else can — the songs inside seashells. Her grandmother called it a gift and never explained why. Now Gran is gone, and Irene walks the shoreline alone, collecting shells that hum and whisper. Then she finds a ...
A Mother's Love #1
The Magnolia's GiftAva runs a small flower shop on Main Street, arranging wedding bouquets while unpaid bills pile up. Her son Micah has just been accepted to Vanderbilt, and she has no idea how to pay for it. Then one autumn even...
The Bookshop
After finding her fiancé in bed with another woman, Emmeline Roche ducks into a bookshop she's never noticed on a street she's walked a hundred times. The man inside knows her name. He hands her a velvet-bound book with blank pages and a silver...
Crimson Bindings
When her sister Lyra vanishes, Soraya disguises herself as a courtesan and infiltrates the Crimson Court — the underground sanctuary of the vampire order she suspects took her. But Lord Aric Nerezza sees through her mask from the first moment, ...
Secrets of the Sea Witch
Cordelia has ruled the seas for centuries, her magic flowing through every current and tide. Then a storm sweeps a mortal captain overboard, and she breaks the most sacred law of her kind to save him. Now haunted by his lute music drifting down...
The Moth and the Flame
Bran steals beautiful things from people who've forgotten how to appreciate them. Tonight's target: a glass vial of immortelle extract hidden inside Thornwood Manor, home of the reclusive Lady Corvina Latch — a woman the townspeople speak of on...
The Apricot Tree
Arabell Harper hasn't been home to Edenvale Hollow in five years. Now her mother is selling the farmhouse, and she's back to help pack up a lifetime of memories. But the apricot tree at the meadow's edge still bears the initials she carved ther...
Midnight Croissants
Milo's pastry career in Manhattan is in ruins. Debts are mounting. His landlord is circling. And the food no longer speaks to him. Then a letter arrives from a French lawyer: his grandmother Colette has died, leaving him her tiny Montmartre apa...
The Sand Dancer's Secret
Kiona carries Kusso blood and her grandmother's traditional dances, but her competition team wants her to abandon the old steps for something modern and marketable. Torn between heritage and ambition, she practices alone on the Edisto Island sh...
Burn
Carla Brighton spends her days buried in spreadsheets under fluorescent lights. Roger Mills spends his on construction sites under the open sky. Five years together, and the distance between their worlds only sharpens the pull between them. Eve...
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The Messenger of the Tides
After her divorce, marine conservationist Willa Moore walks the same Maui shoreline every dawn. She counts turtle hatchlings, seeking her purpose, and pretending the ocean can fill what's empty inside her. Then a storm leaves a stranger among t...
The Crimson Path
Since a curse froze the moon in the sky three years ago, the Moonwood has become a place where shadows hold teeth. Ruby, a young healer's apprentice, walks its enchanted paths nightly to harvest rare herbs — protected only by her grandmother's ...
The Moonlit Curse
Still grieving her mother's death, Calla moves to a quiet coastal town where her father buries himself in work, and every face is a stranger's. Then one night, impossible electric blue and ethereal green lights pulse beneath the ocean, moving w...
Moonlit Bond
Born under an eclipse on the northern tundra, Kaela has always sensed things others cannot — shadows moving against the wind, lights where no fire burns. Now, marked for the ancient Moon Ritual, she must walk alone into the frozen wilderness to...
Blood Oath
After five years leading humanity's resistance against vampire rule, Isolde Black makes the ultimate sacrifice — a blood oath binding her in marriage to Lord Lucian Aramis, the most powerful vampire lord, in exchange for amnesty for her people....
The Baker's Blessing
Award-winning chef Leonardo Alvarez left his grandmother's small Oaxacan bakery fifteen years ago to chase Michelin stars in Mexico City. Now her stroke has called him home to Panadería Milagros, where the shelves are half-empty, and the recipe...
Between Worlds
Nico Littlesea, a young Wabanaki fisherman on the Maine coast, has always known the sea holds secrets. When a mysterious, dark-haired woman appears in the tidepools at dusk, his grandfather's old stories suddenly feel very real. Night after nig...
The Healer's Heart
Elizabeth Greythorne is a village healer hiding a dangerous secret — her gift comes not from herb lore but from ancient earth magic, the kind that gets women burned. When a wounded knight collapses at the edge of her garden, she risks exposure ...
Moonlight's Eternal Promise
On a night when the Lunar Veil thins the boundaries between worlds, young witch Lola slips beyond her Coven's sanctuary and encounters Marcus — a centuries-old vampire whose sorrow runs as deep as his power. Everything she's been taught says to...
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