The Christmas Night Heist

Every touch is a transgression.
Every moment of desire is a risk neither can undo.

Some relics are locked away for protection.
Others are hidden to protect the world from what they contain.

Sable Ware steals holy objects—not for faith, but for the highest bidder. Brilliant, unrepentant, and dangerously skilled, she has never failed a job. Until Christmas Eve, when her latest heist goes wrong and she’s caught not by police… but by a priest with the eyes of a soldier and a grip of iron.

Father Cain Rook is no shepherd. He’s an inquisitor tasked with handling what the Church buries in silence. And the relic Sable stole—the Sapphire Vial of St. Nicholas’s Tears—is no miracle. It’s a prison. One that holds The Noël, a demonic entity that feeds on despair, devotion, and the dark underside of the holiday season.

Instead of turning Sable in, Cain offers her a choice steeped in help him destroy the relic for good—or die with it.
Thrown into a blasphemous alliance where carols mask violence and sacred traditions become weapons, Sable and Cain are forced to rely on each other to survive the night. But as danger closes in, so does a forbidden attraction neither of them can afford to surrender to.

Because this Christmas, the greatest risk isn’t stealing a relic.
It’s choosing each other.
A dark Christmas romance featuring a forbidden priest, a brilliant Black heroine, slow-burn heat, high stakes, and a complete standalone ending with no cliffhanger.