When a woman with undiagnosed autism unwittingly makes a deal with a demon, her neatly ordered world takes a turn for the really, REALLY weird.
Gwendolyn is 37 and she works at a craft store for the insurance and to get the employee discount for supplies for her fixation hobby of customizing dolls. She has carefully curated her appearance and attitude in public to be unremarkable, because her whole life she's been told that she "too much".
One day her favorite customer mentions that a nearby antique store has a rare doll that Gwen has been desperate to get her hands on. The eerie proprietor only agrees to let her have the doll if she will 1) kiss him and 2) satisfactorily customize the doll.
Begrudgingly, Gwen agrees to his odd deal and takes the doll home after an equally odd kiss. As the days pass life gets weirder and weirder for Gwen. She wakes up one morning with shockingly pink hair. A strangely colored spider crawls out of the dolls clothes and vanishes when Gwen tries to remove it from her apartment. She has oddly erotic nightmares of the antiquarian proprietor who takes on decidedly non-human characteristics in her dreams.
Her carefully curated mask begins to crumble.
Sick of the weirdness, she tries to bring the doll back to the antique store. To her horror, she learns that the proprietor is an actual DEMON and by accepting the doll she has entered into an agreement with him to be his warlock.
As Gwen and the demon butt heads over whether she will actually be his warlock, a strange sort of attraction begins to grow between them (which horrifies both of them).
If you love horrormance, autistic protagonists, demisexual rep, chronic pain rep, and heroines becoming a villain, then Wicked Flavors might be the book for you.
Gwen and Ambrosius by colinarcartperson
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