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Silent Night
People are greedy, and Christmas intensifies this to sickening heights. Most don’t need the stuff they ask for—but I do. Which is why, while families enjoy their holiday cheer and traditions, they don’t see me slip in and out of their homes, snatching their possessions.
This house should be like all the others. I’ve watched and planned. When the residents announce a last-minute vacation, it becomes entirely too easy. In, out, and it’ll be over.
Until it isn’t. Until she catches me in the house. But this isn’t the first time she’s seen me.
She thinks it’s a coincidence. I say it’s fate. And now, I understand why people get spoiled during this time of year.
Because now, there’s one more thing I want to steal. One thing I’m growing too obsessed with, too greedy for to release.
Her.
This house should be like all the others. I’ve watched and planned. When the residents announce a last-minute vacation, it becomes entirely too easy. In, out, and it’ll be over.
Until it isn’t. Until she catches me in the house. But this isn’t the first time she’s seen me.
She thinks it’s a coincidence. I say it’s fate. And now, I understand why people get spoiled during this time of year.
Because now, there’s one more thing I want to steal. One thing I’m growing too obsessed with, too greedy for to release.
Her.
130 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2024
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M.L. Philpitt
25 books286 followersUSA Today Bestselling author M.L. Philpitt writes both dark romance and paranormal romance. When she’s not writing made-up realities, she’s reading them. She lives in Canada with her four pets and survives life with coffee and an obsession with fictional characters, especially the morally grey kind. By day, she masks as a therapist, and is still waiting for her Hogwarts letter so she can be sorted into her Ravenclaw house.
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I’m starting this book, recommended by a friend. I think it’s perfect for this Christmas season, even though it has a dark touch. I’m intrigued to see how it blends the holiday theme with intense and mysterious romance. Let’s see how it goes!
─── started on December 17/2024♡───
I’m starting this book, recommended by a friend. I think it’s perfect for this Christmas season, even though it has a dark touch. I’m intrigued to see how it blends the holiday theme with intense and mysterious romance. Let’s see how it goes!
December 10, 2024
4.3⭐️! |💚❤️X🖤🥀|
This novella is so good!!🎅🏼SAINTTT🥵is soo hot!!! His name might be saint but he is NO SAINT!!😮💨😏It was Christmas related with too much spice🌶️! Hayley and saint ended up their story so cute!!🥺🫶🏻I loved how they met at first when they were really young and accidentally met up again!🤭I would highly recommend this bc it’s almost Christmas and gurll it’s dark!!😍👏🏼😮💨
Tropes:
🎄stalker romance
🎄Touch her and die
🎄Holiday romance
🎄Christmas smut
🎄Daddy vibes
🎄Dark romance
Favourite Quotes:
❤️ “If anyone, your stepbrother or otherwise, even considers harming you, I’ll hunt them the fuck down, Hayley. I don’t care if I have to travel from one end of the country to you, I’ll always protect you. Even though I can’t keep you, you’re mine now, and I protect what little I can call mine.”
💚 “He was trying to hurt her, so I’ll hurt him. It’s as simple as that.
❤️ “You’re safe,” “He’ll never go near you again. No one will ever hurt you, sweet girl. Not if they want to live.”
💚 “Hayley is mine. On the streets or in this house, against a gang or against one asshole stepbrother, I’ll always fucking protect her.”
❤️ “December twenty-fifth has always been a shitty day for me. It’s my birthday, and no day before meeting you has ever been truly worth living.”
💚 “You mean, this whole time, it was your birthday too? You never said anything!”
“Didn’t have to. My wishes already came true.”
❤️ “I was about to steal, hid me, and then robbed from me.” “Robbed fr—” “You reached your little, innocent hand into my chest, twisted, and ripped my heart out, keeping it for yourself”
💚 “You stole Christmas that night. You stole me. Now, you’ll have to keep me.”
This novella is so good!!🎅🏼SAINTTT🥵is soo hot!!! His name might be saint but he is NO SAINT!!😮💨😏It was Christmas related with too much spice🌶️! Hayley and saint ended up their story so cute!!🥺🫶🏻I loved how they met at first when they were really young and accidentally met up again!🤭I would highly recommend this bc it’s almost Christmas and gurll it’s dark!!😍👏🏼😮💨
Tropes:
🎄stalker romance
🎄Touch her and die
🎄Holiday romance
🎄Christmas smut
🎄Daddy vibes
🎄Dark romance
Favourite Quotes:
❤️ “If anyone, your stepbrother or otherwise, even considers harming you, I’ll hunt them the fuck down, Hayley. I don’t care if I have to travel from one end of the country to you, I’ll always protect you. Even though I can’t keep you, you’re mine now, and I protect what little I can call mine.”
💚 “He was trying to hurt her, so I’ll hurt him. It’s as simple as that.
❤️ “You’re safe,” “He’ll never go near you again. No one will ever hurt you, sweet girl. Not if they want to live.”
💚 “Hayley is mine. On the streets or in this house, against a gang or against one asshole stepbrother, I’ll always fucking protect her.”
❤️ “December twenty-fifth has always been a shitty day for me. It’s my birthday, and no day before meeting you has ever been truly worth living.”
💚 “You mean, this whole time, it was your birthday too? You never said anything!”
“Didn’t have to. My wishes already came true.”
❤️ “I was about to steal, hid me, and then robbed from me.” “Robbed fr—” “You reached your little, innocent hand into my chest, twisted, and ripped my heart out, keeping it for yourself”
💚 “You stole Christmas that night. You stole me. Now, you’ll have to keep me.”
December 5, 2024
I’m really picky when it comes to Novellas since they are so short - but I absolutely loved this one.
It’s literally short, sweet & a little spicy 🌶️ 🖤
It’s literally short, sweet & a little spicy 🌶️ 🖤
November 30, 2024
Rating 3.5
November 27, 2024
If you’re looking for a quick read, something dark/spicy for Christmas with stalker vibes, you’ve found it!! While this was VERY spicy 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️, I really loved the story of Saint & Hayley .
November 18, 2024
3.5 STARS | This was good, but so wrong at the same time. This was indeed dark, but also very unrealistic. The good side of this book though was that it was quick and steamy!
December 13, 2024
I never want to hear a man call any woman “sweet girl” I learned that during this book.
December 7, 2024
I absolutely loved this!! This was the perfect quick holiday novella I needed!! I loved Saint and he stole and melted my black heart. The spice was great!! Is it realistic.... no but it's a book and I loved it!!
December 3, 2024
Never read a stalker romance but I oddly enjoyed it. Good amount of spice & drama
December 10, 2024
3.5 ⭐️
This was honestly just a spicy, good time🔥
I love that the MMC gave classic grinch vibes.
The overall storyline was super fast paced for being a novella, & kept me on the edge of my seat !!
This was honestly just a spicy, good time🔥
I love that the MMC gave classic grinch vibes.
The overall storyline was super fast paced for being a novella, & kept me on the edge of my seat !!
December 11, 2024
GREEDY….
“Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas...🎄
lock your windows.
Or don't.
No one's judging”
I read this novella on a whim and I enjoyed it. It was a dark romance but ended up being sweet. It was also quite romantic when we got to the end. That last line was the cherry on top 😂
“Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas...🎄
lock your windows.
Or don't.
No one's judging”
I read this novella on a whim and I enjoyed it. It was a dark romance but ended up being sweet. It was also quite romantic when we got to the end. That last line was the cherry on top 😂
December 4, 2024
Okay but I love Saint
December 11, 2024
well, merry christmas ya filfthy animals 💋
December 18, 2024
3.5 ⭐
"You stole Christmas that night. You stole me. Now, you'll have to keep me"
Spicy and dark take on a Christmas novella.
"You stole Christmas that night. You stole me. Now, you'll have to keep me"
Spicy and dark take on a Christmas novella.
December 7, 2024
Yikes… I really don’t know how to review this book without being super harsh so I’ll say this, I did not hate this book. I do think it was sort of a dumpster fire and giving it a 2/5 star ⭐️ rating is generous. I did not find Saint nor Hayley to be likable, and other than the first chapter everything is just thrown at you and what sticks is just so wild. I don’t mind a dark romance, but I’m not sure it works for a novella. I think those books need more time to develop and this was just not it. If you’re looking for spice, this is definitely 4/5 🌶️ but that’s really all you’re going to get. It was 100% not the book for me, and I sort of wish I hadn’t read it but I truly didn’t hate it; it’s more just like watching a weird movie where you’re just sort of like well, I don’t know what just happened but that was not for me! I’m sorry if my low rating offends anyone, but it is an accurate reflection of my opinion on this book. Would I recommend it? No… but if you just want a really quick & spicy read, go for it!
December 3, 2024
I read this as day 2 of my 25 days of spicy holiday novellas, and I actually truly enjoyed this!
It’s a quick 130pg read and on KU! Our MMC Saint is morally grey based on circumstance and not so much choice. He grew up in foster care and was booted out on Christmas, which also happens to be his birthday. Needless to say he has never experienced a good Christmas, and truly despises greedy people. One day he happens upon Haley our FMCs home and she’s fighting with her parents, after they run out of the house and conveniently leave the front door unlocked, Saint decides he’s going to just step inside and get warm. After taking in the immense amount of wealth he decides they wont miss anything if he takes it. He’s caught off guard when Haley returns to catch him in the act, only she isn’t afraid of him and essentially helps him steal from her father.
Fast forward 4 years and Saint has made a career out of breaking and entering. He never sticks around the same place long and he finds the perfect house for his next target. The universe throws him a bone when the couple that lives there announces they are going on a holiday vacation while he’s scoping out the house. Perfect, he’ll get a warm bed for a couple days, take what he wants and be the heck out of dodge before they even get back home.
Little does Saint know the couple asked their kids to come home for the holidays only to stand them up after they already made it into town. Hayley is now stuck with her creepy step brother alone for the holidays.
Saint gets the surprise of his life after breaking into the house he has been staking out only to find out FMC Hayley in the kitchen at 1am, the same girl from 4 years ago. He decides he’s there to take more than just their belongings, he also wants her for the holidays too!
This book was not only spicy but it really gets you thinking about everything you have to be grateful for, and definitely appreciating it more.
It’s a quick 130pg read and on KU! Our MMC Saint is morally grey based on circumstance and not so much choice. He grew up in foster care and was booted out on Christmas, which also happens to be his birthday. Needless to say he has never experienced a good Christmas, and truly despises greedy people. One day he happens upon Haley our FMCs home and she’s fighting with her parents, after they run out of the house and conveniently leave the front door unlocked, Saint decides he’s going to just step inside and get warm. After taking in the immense amount of wealth he decides they wont miss anything if he takes it. He’s caught off guard when Haley returns to catch him in the act, only she isn’t afraid of him and essentially helps him steal from her father.
Fast forward 4 years and Saint has made a career out of breaking and entering. He never sticks around the same place long and he finds the perfect house for his next target. The universe throws him a bone when the couple that lives there announces they are going on a holiday vacation while he’s scoping out the house. Perfect, he’ll get a warm bed for a couple days, take what he wants and be the heck out of dodge before they even get back home.
Little does Saint know the couple asked their kids to come home for the holidays only to stand them up after they already made it into town. Hayley is now stuck with her creepy step brother alone for the holidays.
Saint gets the surprise of his life after breaking into the house he has been staking out only to find out FMC Hayley in the kitchen at 1am, the same girl from 4 years ago. He decides he’s there to take more than just their belongings, he also wants her for the holidays too!
This book was not only spicy but it really gets you thinking about everything you have to be grateful for, and definitely appreciating it more.
December 12, 2024
✰✰✰✰/5
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶/5
⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ Tropes ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆
☁︎Opposites Attract☁︎
☁︎Thief/stalker MMC☁︎
☁︎Holiday Romance☁︎
‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ Thoughts ☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙
☁︎Wow. This book is quick but spicy! It had plenty of plot with so much smut. I absolutely loved it! I honestly wished there was more of it because the ending happened in like a blink of the eye. It was a tad rushed but it was still so good!
˖⁺‧₊˚☁️˚₊‧⁺˖Recommended for ppl who (are)…˖⁺‧₊˚☁️˚₊‧⁺˖
☁︎Need a spicy holiday romance☁︎
☁︎Loves instant attraction books☁︎
☁︎Smut enthusiasts☁︎
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶/5
⋆˖⁺‧₊☽ Tropes ☾₊‧⁺˖⋆
☁︎Opposites Attract☁︎
☁︎Thief/stalker MMC☁︎
☁︎Holiday Romance☁︎
‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ Thoughts ☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙
☁︎Wow. This book is quick but spicy! It had plenty of plot with so much smut. I absolutely loved it! I honestly wished there was more of it because the ending happened in like a blink of the eye. It was a tad rushed but it was still so good!
˖⁺‧₊˚☁️˚₊‧⁺˖Recommended for ppl who (are)…˖⁺‧₊˚☁️˚₊‧⁺˖
☁︎Need a spicy holiday romance☁︎
☁︎Loves instant attraction books☁︎
☁︎Smut enthusiasts☁︎
November 27, 2024
it was fun i guess, i wanted to know saint's back story a little bit more but yeah it's a short spicy Christmas novella so i get it! i liked the characters liked that hayley that first time let him steal with no care in the world like go you and saint was fun the whole novella was fun actually it gave what it needed to give sooo nothing out of this world but still entertaining
December 10, 2024
Rating: 3.75 stars⭐️✨
Recommend: Sure
Genre: Smutty Christmas Dark Romance🖤
*spoiler free*
Essentially Saint breaks into Hayley’s house and you get great smutty festive🎄✨
scenes. It’s short sweet and too the point with a small sub plot.
🎁“He’s officially unwrapped me, so now he gets to play. After all, that’s what happens on Christmas morning. Gifts are unwrapped, and then used.”🎁
Recommend: Sure
Genre: Smutty Christmas Dark Romance🖤
*spoiler free*
Essentially Saint breaks into Hayley’s house and you get great smutty festive🎄✨
scenes. It’s short sweet and too the point with a small sub plot.
🎁“He’s officially unwrapped me, so now he gets to play. After all, that’s what happens on Christmas morning. Gifts are unwrapped, and then used.”🎁
December 16, 2024
“hayley robbed me of everything i was and made me want something else, to be someone new. but i can’t be greedy with her. not anymore.”
the only beef i have with this book is that i wish it was longer. i ate this up and i absolutely want more of it. short, dark, and spicy, which is exactly what i love. i will absolutely be reading more of this author’s work!
the only beef i have with this book is that i wish it was longer. i ate this up and i absolutely want more of it. short, dark, and spicy, which is exactly what i love. i will absolutely be reading more of this author’s work!
December 9, 2024
3 ⭐️s
dark (kinda stalker? more robber…) spicy christmas novella that’s perfect if you’re looking for a fun quick read
wish we got more of saint’s backstory but then again it is a novella
dark (kinda stalker? more robber…) spicy christmas novella that’s perfect if you’re looking for a fun quick read
wish we got more of saint’s backstory but then again it is a novella
December 12, 2024
As christina would say... one star for writing a book.
December 16, 2024
A TikTok recommendation that was just fine.
December 13, 2024
A very delicious little dark Christmas romance- a criminal/ thief who robs the same girl accidentally twice and the second time she covers for him and protects him, he decides she is his;) Saint is anything but that but I would also allow him to degrade me and claim me, anytimeeeee lol!
December 6, 2024
Realistically I should probably rate this 3 stars but anytime I see a 3 star review from someone I think something like “eh it’s probably not that good.” And this book was great for what it was—a quick, trashy Christmas novella with some dark romance vibes. So, 4⭐️ for that reason!
December 13, 2024
Cute little book with no world building or character development… it was quick and a nice break from my usual reads
December 1, 2024
This was actually really sweet! An enjoyable & easy read!
November 22, 2024
Enjoyed it more than I expected!! It went in a way I really didn't expect. Honestly I thought it was going to be a little smutty read... It was in places but it was also so deep and traumatic for our MMC, I teared up quite a few times. Beautiful story with a HEA ☺️
November 10, 2024
Awesome short read!!
Absolutely loved this read.....it was short and had me wishing for more of Haylee and Saint more of their story.
Absolutely loved this read.....it was short and had me wishing for more of Haylee and Saint more of their story.
November 30, 2024
This was on the high side of 3 stars closer to 3.5 only because I wished it was more fleshed out and longer.
I liked the concept a lot. Saint is basically a modern day Grinch and in this book he’s stealing from Hayley’s parent’s house on Christmas. Also he hates Christmas! Hayley is all too willing to let him have things she thinks her parents have too much of but Saint not only steals their presents but Hayley’s heart too. This was very short and spicy. It was mostly smut but it was still enjoyable. There’s more sex scenes than anything and I do wish their relationship was more fleshed out. The epilogue is Saint going to get his girl after a month of being apart so we don’t see their future at all. It’s very HFN. Still liked it though.
NO CHEATING OR SCENES WITH OP
NO OW DRAMA
OM DRAMA (Hayley’s creepy stepbrother wants her and makes it known)
NOT REALLY A BREAK UP BUT THEY DO SEPARATE THIRD ACT AND ARE APART FOR A MONTH AND A HALF
HFN
I liked the concept a lot. Saint is basically a modern day Grinch and in this book he’s stealing from Hayley’s parent’s house on Christmas. Also he hates Christmas! Hayley is all too willing to let him have things she thinks her parents have too much of but Saint not only steals their presents but Hayley’s heart too. This was very short and spicy. It was mostly smut but it was still enjoyable. There’s more sex scenes than anything and I do wish their relationship was more fleshed out. The epilogue is Saint going to get his girl after a month of being apart so we don’t see their future at all. It’s very HFN. Still liked it though.
NO CHEATING OR SCENES WITH OP
NO OW DRAMA
OM DRAMA (Hayley’s creepy stepbrother wants her and makes it known)
NOT REALLY A BREAK UP BUT THEY DO SEPARATE THIRD ACT AND ARE APART FOR A MONTH AND A HALF
HFN
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