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A Silent Night, A Dangerous Love
Nestled in a quaint town, fiery Mairi is determined to escape the ashes of her scandalous and tumultuous past. When whispers begin to snake through her once peaceful home, Mairi returns to her home in New Orleans to finally put the rumors to rest. Feeling backed into a corner, Mairi hires Charlie, an unapologetic woman who works in the city's underbelly. Mairi hopes to reclaim her life and the peace she's held onto for so long. However, as the chemistry between them ignites, their playful charade spirals into a game of passion and desire, revealing hidden depths neither anticipated.
As Mairi and Charlie dive deeper into their lie, the simmering tension between them becomes impossible to ignore. Late-night whispers and stolen glances turn into unforgettable encounters. Just as Mairi's peace is only a breath away, shadows from her past threaten to unravel everything they've built. Both women must choose to confront their dark pasts if they ever want to break the line they have created between illusion and reality
As Mairi and Charlie dive deeper into their lie, the simmering tension between them becomes impossible to ignore. Late-night whispers and stolen glances turn into unforgettable encounters. Just as Mairi's peace is only a breath away, shadows from her past threaten to unravel everything they've built. Both women must choose to confront their dark pasts if they ever want to break the line they have created between illusion and reality
122 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2024
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Lucinda Wicked
27 books78 followersMeet Lucinda Wicked – a cosplayer with over a decade of experience turning epic characters into reality. When she’s not in costume, she’s crafting magic for her spooky shop at lucindawicked.com. Think haunting stickers and cozy, eerie sweaters – perfect for anyone who loves a touch of the macabre.
Luci isn’t just about business, though. She’s part of the LGBT+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and spoonie communities. Living with a chronic illness, she knows what it’s like to balance creativity with life’s challenges and pours that energy into everything she does.
When she’s not creating, Luci’s writing dark stories, geeking out over spooky vibes, or chasing a little cosmic wonder. Welcome to Lucinda Wicked – where the supernatural meets everyday life.
Luci isn’t just about business, though. She’s part of the LGBT+, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and spoonie communities. Living with a chronic illness, she knows what it’s like to balance creativity with life’s challenges and pours that energy into everything she does.
When she’s not creating, Luci’s writing dark stories, geeking out over spooky vibes, or chasing a little cosmic wonder. Welcome to Lucinda Wicked – where the supernatural meets everyday life.
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December 23, 2024
This book is short but it’s super good in my opinion. I love the bi awakening that happens and the denying that happened.
October 27, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ , "Fake dating? More like emotional hostage-taking in the best possible way for me."
Lucinda Wicked has done it again and by "it," I mean she has written a sapphic fever dream that made me want to light a candle, call my therapist, and then text my ex just to feel something.
"A Silent Night, A Dangerous Love" is a fake dating meets trauma therapy meets "I could fix her, but also I absolutely cannot." Mairi is a freshly escaped abuse survivor who accidentally hires a dominatrix sex worker, a woman without emotional availability who doesn't believe in love, for pretending to be her girlfriend over the holiday weekend. Four days with family drama, unresolved trauma, unholy tension and enough sexual power play to knock a saint off her pedestal.
Charlie - the love interest slash walking sin - is that perfectly unhinged blend of brooding, morally gray, and "I'll choke you gently but with purpose." And Mairi? Sweetheart, watching this woman rediscover her power is like seeing Persephone crawl out of hell wearing red lipstick. The consequences are high, the dialogue clipped and terse, and the internal monologues feral.
Lucinda intimately writes like she exorcizes demons through foreplay, dripping with vulnerability and a palpable danger. One moment you clutch your chest because trauma flashes back, and the next you clutch your pearls because of the way Charlie says "sweetheart".
It's messy. It's toxic-adjacent. It's romantic as hell. And I loved every chaotic, emotionally codependent second of it.
Spice Level: 🔥 4/5 , 50/50 Plot and Spice
Expect a lot of viscerally explicit blurring of dom/sub, breath play, power play, and soft aftercare that will make your soul leave your body for a minute. It's erotic, but it means something. (And that's what makes it worse. Or better. Depends how you like your pain.)
Would I recommend it? Absolutely. Would I still be around if I dated either of them? No. But I'd still show up to the Pastel Palace with a twenty in hand and no self-preserving tendencies.
🖤 For fans of: fake dating chaos, WLW dominance, found-family tenderness, and kindling a fire out of control to reclaim your past.
Lucinda Wicked has done it again and by "it," I mean she has written a sapphic fever dream that made me want to light a candle, call my therapist, and then text my ex just to feel something.
"A Silent Night, A Dangerous Love" is a fake dating meets trauma therapy meets "I could fix her, but also I absolutely cannot." Mairi is a freshly escaped abuse survivor who accidentally hires a dominatrix sex worker, a woman without emotional availability who doesn't believe in love, for pretending to be her girlfriend over the holiday weekend. Four days with family drama, unresolved trauma, unholy tension and enough sexual power play to knock a saint off her pedestal.
Charlie - the love interest slash walking sin - is that perfectly unhinged blend of brooding, morally gray, and "I'll choke you gently but with purpose." And Mairi? Sweetheart, watching this woman rediscover her power is like seeing Persephone crawl out of hell wearing red lipstick. The consequences are high, the dialogue clipped and terse, and the internal monologues feral.
Lucinda intimately writes like she exorcizes demons through foreplay, dripping with vulnerability and a palpable danger. One moment you clutch your chest because trauma flashes back, and the next you clutch your pearls because of the way Charlie says "sweetheart".
It's messy. It's toxic-adjacent. It's romantic as hell. And I loved every chaotic, emotionally codependent second of it.
Spice Level: 🔥 4/5 , 50/50 Plot and Spice
Expect a lot of viscerally explicit blurring of dom/sub, breath play, power play, and soft aftercare that will make your soul leave your body for a minute. It's erotic, but it means something. (And that's what makes it worse. Or better. Depends how you like your pain.)
Would I recommend it? Absolutely. Would I still be around if I dated either of them? No. But I'd still show up to the Pastel Palace with a twenty in hand and no self-preserving tendencies.
🖤 For fans of: fake dating chaos, WLW dominance, found-family tenderness, and kindling a fire out of control to reclaim your past.
April 4, 2025
amazing
I love this book. It was well written and amazing. Lucinda is an amazing author. She writes from her heart.
I love this book. It was well written and amazing. Lucinda is an amazing author. She writes from her heart.
January 28, 2026
this was a good read with darker themes, i just wish it was a full novel so it could be more detailed and have more plot
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