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Christmas Obsession

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For months Vincent has watched his innocent, young, next-door neighbor. 
He knows it’s wrong, but he can’t get enough.

She’s his obsession. Shy, sweet, and incredibly naive. A true temptation.
As a hitman for the mob, his job is something he doesn’t ever want to touch her, so he keeps his distance, forcing himself to ignore the primal need to take her.

All that changes on Christmas Eve when he comes face to face with Faith.
 Unable to forget her sweet scent and soft smile, he knows he can’t stay away any longer. He’s going to get the ultimate Christmas gift this year… his obsession.​​​​​​*This is a spicy Christmas novella that’s going to be most certainly on the naughty list. Including dark themes, filthy language, and a happily ever after.

122 pages, ebook

Published November 25, 2020

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Darcy Rose

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Darcy Rose is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes about shy and innocent heroines, to match them up with dark and intense heroes who have only eyes for one girl.

If you like your books short, taboo, dark, and a bit (or a lot) kinky, then Darcy Rose is perfect for you.

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Profile Image for Celia {Hiatus until August}.
750 reviews138 followers
December 18, 2022
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•| ⊱✿⊰ |• 3,4 Stars •| ⊱✿⊰ |•

Vincent is a mafia hitman, and he watches his teenage neighbour Faith.
He's obsessed with her...

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But he just watches her, Vincent don't want to drag her to his dark world.
Until Christmas Eve...

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Faith's mother invites in to dinner, and that's when troubles (or not), begin...
A quick reading, in the spirit of the season.

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Profile Image for Darlene I read WAY to many books.
3,675 reviews2,423 followers
August 13, 2021
Fast pace steamy novella!! An okay read for when you can't sleep.

Vincent is a hitman for the mob is stalking his next door neighbor, he won't make a move but he can watch her from afar and enjoy his twisted obession. And he makes a choice to see her in person one time and he'll cut himself off no more stalking 🤣. So when Faith's mom invites him over for Christmas cookies and try to get laid he goes over but doesn't even give the mom a glance he puts her in her place many times. He's only there for his Christmas angel. As for his angel Faith has been lasting after him to but knows he won't see her that way but she always feels like she's being watched.. secretly hoping it's Vince..

But be pushes her away he won't give in.. and thats why it's sucks I wanted him to be more alpha but he doesn't do anything until almost the end when his job crashes and tries to take away his woman.

Om drama (old class mate & boss), no cheating, Drama, sexy times, Virgin gal and no manwhore

Recommend-yes
Cover-⭐⭐⭐
Heat level-🌶🌶🌶

Slowinsta
Slight push away from H
Age gap
19h/30H
Voygiusm
No condom
Hea
Epilogue
Profile Image for Оля (hiatus) ***.
211 reviews210 followers
June 4, 2022
I liked the novel, maybe not much was missing in terms of ingenuity in sex. But I liked those slow steps, this tension between the heroes before he made the heroine his.
The heroine is a virgin. Hero - as I understand it, he has not been with anyone for a long time, there is almost nothing about him in this regard. The only thing that I really didn’t like was the fact that the heroine recalled that during her school years she gave her then-boyfriend a blowjob and swallowed sperm, I stopped reading at that moment, and only the next day I continued to read. I think it was possible to limit the experience of the heroine to manual caresses.
I will give five stars, because as I understand it, this is the author's first book after a long break, and in general I liked the novel, I hope everything will be fine in her next books!
Sorry for the bad English, I'm from Russia myself)
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1,083 reviews71 followers
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January 3, 2023
On dokuz yaşında ki karşı komşusuna takıntılı, kiralık bir katil Vincent.
Kendinden büyük bir adama ilgi duyan, içine kapanık, okumayı seven, sorumsuz bir anne ile yaşayan Faith...

Bu kitapta en azından bir olay akışı vardı😅
Profile Image for Lauren .
120 reviews31 followers
December 8, 2020
This book is about the mysterious hitman Vincent and his innocent next door neighbor faith. Vincent has been obsessed with Faith from the first moment he saw her, and Faith is equally as enamoured by Vincent.

Steamy short read set around Christmas with a big handsome hero and his innocent little obsession.

I loved everything about this book and I will be reading more from this author.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Profile Image for Granger McGringot.
1,440 reviews217 followers
December 21, 2020
OTT romance between hitman mob and innocent naive next-door neighbour. The story was short, straight to the point and not much of a dramatic flair; just a bit overdramatic supporting characters surrounding the h. Gotta warn though, the H had borderline possessive characteristic with stalker tendency.

Virgin h, celibate H
No condoms
No cheating
Moderate steaminess
HEA, Epilogue - marriage
Overall score: 2.5 stalker romance stars
Profile Image for Katie Utterly Unashamed.
826 reviews194 followers
December 16, 2021
3.5 Christmas Smut Stars
You ever just need to get lost in a completely ridiculous Christmas Novella? That is basically me every day this year.

This was another new to me author read and I enjoyed the shit out of it.

What you get:
✅Age Gap
✅Virgin Heroine
✅Instalove
✅Antihero
✅Stalker Neighbor

With all Novellas, go in ready for some fun ridiculousness and you will love it as well.



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69 reviews
May 26, 2024
I don’t know what I expected
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1,931 reviews5 followers
November 5, 2023
ridiculous

Definitely not worth the time. Sad attempt to be a story, nothing here but unnecessary nonsense and drama. Pass on this one.
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1,309 reviews
December 4, 2022
Christmas Quickie.

Vincent is obsessed with his neighbor, Faith. Her being too young and him being a mob hitman has him keeping his distance while obsessing over her.

Faith has the same feelings for Vincent. It takes her life being in danger for him to give into his obsession.
Profile Image for Charlene.
1,402 reviews27 followers
January 4, 2021
Christmas Obsession follows mob hitman Vincent, and his next door neighbor Faith, who lives with her mother Margaret. When Margaret invites the new sexy neighbor over for a batch of fresh baked Christmas cookies, her thoughts on making him her next husband, but little does she know that Vincent only has eyes for her daughter Faith. Vincent is a hitman for the mob, but when he’s not working, all his thoughts revolve around his new obsession, Faith. But for a hitman, falling in love can be dangerous, but will Vincent be able to stop himself from having everything he wants with Faith? And when Faith finds out what Vincent does, will she ever be able to love him?
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1,472 reviews5 followers
December 7, 2021
This book was steamy hot but I think that the story wasn’t fleshed out enough for me.

For months Vincent has lived next door to a young woman named Faith and her crazy drunk of a mother. Vincent is a hitman who has been stalking Faith. He watched her by putting cameras in her bedroom. Faith has a big crush on Vincent and she was quite attracted to him from the start. This book was very instalove to me. I liked Faith and Vincent but I wish this had been a longer book. I wanted to know more about Vincent and how he became a hitman.

I wish this book had been much longer and more action and more steamy moments. This should have been a novel instead of a short story.
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3,952 reviews61 followers
December 25, 2020
A dark, age difference romance. New neighbour - Vincent has an infatuation with Faith (FMC) who lives next door. Only the age difference, faith's mother and his job bring on complications though. Yes this book is dark in places & Vincent's obsession with Faith is borderline stalker-ish. In the same breath i do see that he actually cares for Faith in his own way. I can see that some readers might not like some of the content in this book but for me i actually liked their relationship and i wanted them to get their HEA ending. A short read but a good one
Profile Image for Alli.
280 reviews19 followers
March 10, 2021
This was a nice quick read with some great steam! There's a surprising amount of action within the story as well.



Quick & Dirty Details:
- Faith - 19yrs, virgin, college-student, bookworm
- Vincent - late 30's, mafia hitman, broody, rich
- Dark, Stalker, Age-gap, Neighbors
- Steamy
- Multi POV
- Standalone Holiday Novella
- Triggers
2,157 reviews14 followers
December 20, 2020
College student Faith fantasises about two things, her her handsome neighbour Vincent and moving out. But who would be interested in a nineteen-year-old girl who still lives with her overbearing mother? When Faith finally meets Vincent, he's more intense than she expected, which piques her interest and makes her want to run away with him. Or is Vincent only being nice to her because he wants to be with her mom?

Drama-filled, angsty, suspenseful and hot!
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1,350 reviews25 followers
December 21, 2020
Vincent is a mafia hitman who is obsession with his innocence neighbor Faith.
Faith also has been obsession with Vincent since he moved next door. Then on Christmas their path cross and it sets in a motion of events that would lead to their future together and their love.

The Christmas Obsession is a good book. It has drama passion love and h.e.a.
Darcy Rose does a great writing the storyline. I would definitely recommend the book.
Profile Image for Mari (Mystics & Metaphysics Book Blog).
7,751 reviews169 followers
December 22, 2020
Oh, I can already tell I’m going to enjoy the stories by this author. It’s a little dark but on the lighter side and just right. Faith and Vincent are practically obsessed with each other and it takes her being in danger for him to finally give in. It’s steamy and boy does it keep you on edge. It also has some danger to help her your adrenaline running and now I need more!
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124 reviews56 followers
December 19, 2021
Faith & Vincent

Faith has a big crush and slight obsession with her next door neighbor, but because she’s so much younger… she thinks she doesn’t have a shot in hell with him… but little does she know… Vincent watches her every chance he gets with the cameras he installed in her bedroom when her & her mom weren’t around. 👀
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621 reviews2 followers
December 19, 2020
Short sexy read that makes love dark dangerous men. He is stalker that wants her but fears age and dark side is to much for her innocence, so what will happen when he learns she wants him no matter what.Love it, dont skip this book.
Profile Image for Nicole.
1,318 reviews23 followers
November 13, 2023
Christmas Obsession is steamy standalone full-length romance with no cheating or cliffhanger and complete with a happily-ever-after. The story is well written with world building characters and a complex storyline that captures the reader attention from the first chapter and keeps you invested in the story and characters and keep turning the pages until the beautiful HEA. Vincent is a hitman for the mob boss Tony Fontana. He had just did a hit on head of the Polack family and had to lay low for a while. A routine that's used by hitmen. He went to one of the Fontanas safe house in the suburbs. A modern suburban house, which suitable for a family of three or four. Vincent loss both of his parents at sixteen years old in a car accident while heading home from a restaurant after getting some take-out food for the family. It was the nephew of Tony Fontana, Frederico Fontana who kill them after driving into their car after he ran the red light killing them on impact. He was high off a cocaine. The next day Tony showed up to Vincent house and offered him a deal that if he never goes to the police that he would protect him and provide for him for the rest of his life. He later became the hitman for Tony that was twelve years ago.
Faith was Vincent next door neighbor and since moving in he had became obsessed with the petite blue-eyed nineteen year old teenager. He's so obsessed that he knows everything about her, from what time she gets up in the morning to which school she goes to and the time that she's back home from school each day. He knows that it is wrong and he can't have her in his life because of his profession and his darkness. He doesn't want to scully her up, so all he could do his watch from a far. Faith is a beautiful girl who's unloved and dreams of someone taking her out of her situation and takes her of her and control her body so she can submit to them. She spends her free time each day with her nose in an erotic book and pictures herself as the characters that she's reading about. She lives with her single mother Margaret who spends all her money on liquor, clothes, and make-up and in material things. She has already been married four times to men who miss treat her. But she's always on the prowl for her next rich husband. Faith mother treats her only daughter horrible and constantly yelling and snarling at her and bringing home some unsavory characters in her home around her daughter.
Faith had been attracted to Vincent from the moment that he moved in across the way. She often fantasize about him and get herself off with his name on her lips. Vincent is equally attracted and obsessed with her and spends is free time watching her through his window. He has even went as far as installing two cameras in her bedroom so that he can watch her and relieve himself. Often Vincent saves Faith from her old high school friend on Christmas morning. He decided to give her his number if she needed him for anything to call. He had only left his house to go and did another hit for Tony on a man who scammed him out of his money and was on his way back when she called his phone frantic in need of his help. Her mother had went out drinking and came back drunk with a man who was pretending to be drunk. He grabbed her arm and told her that her mother owed him a lot of money and that they could lose everything if she didn't pay. But he was going to sleep with her mother and once he's done he was coming for her too. Vincent rushed to her aid and as it turns out the man was none other than his boss brother Rick.
He threatened him and told him to leave and went upstairs and got Faith and took her to his home. He tried not to touch her but when their desire heighten and Faith asked him to take her virginity he couldn't deny her because he had dreamed of that day for a long time. They had just finished and was basking in the ambience when his front door burst open. As it turns out Rick had kept his promise to make Vincent pay and he wanted Faith. Vincent knows that his boss would not forgive him for killing his brother but he didn't care because he wasn't going to let him have her. Killed him and they got out of town to a another state where he started to work for another mafia family who value family and the life of women unlike Tony Fontana. The was happy and they got their HEA.
Christmas Obsession contains praises, dirty filthy language, dominance, submission, spanking, consensual intense rough sex, gun violence, protective hero, dark secrets, enforcer working for the mafia, gentle protective daddies, stalker, dark mafia romance, anti-hero, criminal underworld, passion, insta-love, lust-at-first-sight, danger, attack, threat, tension, anger, angst, emotions, revelations, action, obsession, lite, drama, acceptance, survival, mystery, adventure, steamy AF, taboo, BDSM, forbidden relationship, romantic suspense, virgin heroine, possessiveness, jealousy, holiday romance, forced proximity, touch-her- and-die, age gap trope story, smutty, billionaire romance, OTT alpha male and love.

I received an advanced copy of this book via Booksprout and I am voluntarily leaving a review.
9 reviews
November 30, 2023
I managed to snag Christmas Obsession: A Stalker Romance free as part of a stuff your kindle day not too long ago. I'd like to preface this by saying that I have never read any of Darcy Rose's books until now. However, her writing style has me definitely wanting to read more. I will admit, I had absolutely no idea what to expect other than what the title suggests, it being a stalker romance, and of course based around Christmas.
I absolutely loved that Darcy had each chapter flip back and forth between the main characters Faith and Vincent. The way that Darcy writes, has you almost visualizing the story as if it was a movie and not a novella. I loved the story line but I definitely think there could have been more to Vincent's. With Faith, you find out that she hasn't had the easiest life living with her mom and a little more of her background, but Vincent's just explains his job and how he came to have that job. The descriptors for the smut portion is outstanding but their first sexual encounter seemed almost rushed and then next you know you are at the Epilogue.
The only other thing that wasn't really a favorite of mine for this story, is that there is hardly any Christmas. Like yes, there's mention of a Christmas tree, of snow, and of baking holiday cookies but I feel that Darcy could've added a little more to the Christmas aspect like decorating the tree or doing Christmas time activities.
If you are looking for a short, slightly Christmas-y smut book, then look no further! Darcy has written the perfect to get you closer to the Christmas spirit while unwrapping a not so nice Christmas present ;).
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42 reviews
December 19, 2023
I participated in "stuff your Kindle day" on November 1st and grabbed many Christmas novellas for free, including this one. It seemed perfect for December, but my rating reflects my disappointment. Here's why:

In hindsight, I should've researched the tropes more, even though I read the author's Goodreads summary. Not being a fan of the stalker trope, I should have understood that a book titled "Christmas Obsession: a stalker novel" wouldn't have been my cup of tea, MY BAD!
But, in my defense, it seemed similar to many other Christmas novels I've read in the past or are on my TBR, so I was intrigued to see how this book would unfold.

Although I know that the MMC is supposed to be a stalker, I found him way to creepy. I felt uncomfortable most of the time and the relationship just felt so incredibly wrong. I honestly don’t really mind the big age gap between the MFC and the MMC, but it was everything else that bothered me.

The fact that Faith was surrounded by so many bad people, constantly hit on by awful guys, just felt like a way to "redeem" Vincent, who was always ready to save our main female character. While it's commendable, am I supposed to root for them when he's a literal stalker who installed cameras in her room and watches her constantly?

And then, the nonchalant reaction of the main female character to discovering the cameras just made everything feel off.

Also, despite the Christmas setting, there was a lack of holiday vibes, making it seem unrelated to the festive season.

I understand it's fictional, and some enjoy these tropes, but personally, I couldn’t get into it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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89 reviews10 followers
November 7, 2023
𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞
My rating: two stars

Oh man, as much I wanted to love this novel, I just couldn’t.


Im trying to be more festive this year, and decided to do “Stuff your kindle day” Christmas edition, and this was an option.

The story wasn’t fleshed out enough, it doesn’t have much to do with Christmas other than taking place in December. The ending made no sense, I won’t say exactly what it is to avoid spoilers, but it left me scratching my head. I feel like the underdeveloped plot and characters didn’t let me find the appeal or do justice to actions done by the MMC.

Im a huge fan of age-gap, mafia/hitmen books but this one just had me full on cringing and full of ick. I mean, installing cameras in her room so he watch her touch herself, normally this is fine with me, I’ve read plenty of books like this but the writing just made it creepy.


Also, Faith’s mother is so annoying and almost made me DNF within the first couple chapters, but I always hate doing that and carried on.


Maybe I just have high standards due to my go-to insta-love authors, maybe this book just wasn’t for me. This has such great potential if a full length novel, but alas that is not the case.
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