Silent Nights and Vampire Lights: A Grimm Mawr Holiday Romance

by Sabrina Silvers

What’s cozier than a road trip with a brooding vampire who’s allergic to the sun? A road trip with a brooding vampire at Christmastime, obviously.

Holly Winters is on the run, and not just from the loneliness of the season—this time, it’s from the mob. Witnessing a hit has landed her on the naughty list of some very dangerous men. Her Christmas escape plan goes off the rails when she’s cornered at a snowy train station. Enter Nicholas tall, dark, mysterious, and just a little undead. He saves her life, but his price for protection? Holly has to drive him home.

For Nicholas, this road trip is nothing but a means to an end. He’s a centuries-old vampire with no interest in sugar cookies, snowmen, or the ceaseless hum of Christmas carols coming from the human woman in the driver’s seat. But as they navigate festive small-town stops and late-night conversations, Holly’s holiday cheer begins to thaw his frosty demeanor.

Holly isn’t sure what’s that she’s road-tripping with a vampire, or that her grumpy, gorgeous passenger is somehow inspiring all kinds of holiday feelings she wasn’t expecting. And Nicholas? He’s starting to wonder if maybe, just maybe, this sassy, sunshine-filled human is the greatest gift he never knew he needed.

Get ready for a road trip full of Yuletide cheer, irresistible banter, and some very heated silent nights!

Genres: Vampires

148 pages, Paperback

Published December 20, 2024

Reviews

[Marianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this adorable vampire/paranormal holiday romance! It is sweet and sexy, with smiles and charm..

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[Curvy Girl Book Nerd (Jen S) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Silent Nights and Vampire Lights: A Grimm Mawr Holiday Romance is a short and steamy, paranormal, opposites-attract, grumpy-sunshine girl gets her vampire Christmas romance. Holly is a human baker who is on the run after witnessing a mob hit. Nicholas is a hunky, grumpy, centuries-old vampire who saves her from attack. These two form an unlikely alliance, friendship, and more as they journey together. This was such a fun and festive read with lots of danger, drama, laughs, hot chemistry, love, and eventually an HEA. This was my first book by this author but not the last. I absolutely loved it.

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[Neusitas · Rating 3 out of 5]

6 / 10 ⭐️
Romanatsy / Sobrenatural (vampiros) / Novela Corta / Navidad / He falls first

Holly presencia un asesinato y huye, pero al llegar a la estación los malos dan con ella y la salva un apuesto vampiro. Nicholas hace un trato con Holly, ella lo lleva con su coche a cambio de su protección.

Es una historia navideña bonita, aunque todo es muy precipitado.
Es de estas historias cortas que te hubieran gustado que fueran un libro completo porque se te queda corto, todo ocurre demasiado rápido, y aunque la pareja es bonita y la historia interesante (aunque no muy original) necesita más desarrollo.

[kymagirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

When Holly (h) witnesses a mob hit, her quiet life as a baker is turned upside down, leaving her running for her life. Nicholas (H), a centuries-old vampire burdened by his past and estranged from his vampire family, intervenes to save Holly from her attackers at a rural train station, the beginning of an unusual alliance. Nicholas’s reluctant act of heroism pulls them into a road trip neither of them planned for, and one that will change their lives forever. As the Christmas season unfolds around them, Holly and Nicholas deal with the dangers of hitmen, the complexities of vampire politics, and their own growing connection. Holly’s warmth and resilience challenge Nicholas’s brooding isolation, while he shows her a kind of loyalty and protection she’s never known. But Nicholas’s fear of his family’s judgment and Holly’s uncertain future threaten to keep them apart, even as their bond deepens. After Nicholas makes a difficult choice regarding their relationship, he'll have to convince Holly to trust him with her heart again. Hot and steamy vampire-human Christmastime romance, with action, wit, and a generous dose of holiday cheer, exploring love, connection, redemption, second chances, belonging, trust, change, and transformation.

[Toni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holly is a baker and she saw something she shouldn't have seen. Now she's running for her life. If they (whoever they are) find her she's dead. Then she's grabbed from behind.
Nicholas is a vampire and headed home to Grimm Mawr. He's been away for decades trying to help smooth over vampire/human relations. As he's getting onto the train he smells a delicious scent. When he looks out he sees a woman running to the train with two males after her. They grab her.
Nicholas saves her and when she sees what he is she faints. When she wakes she's in her car and the vampire is driving. As they discuss what's going on she agrees to drive him home. He promises to help her disappear. Now here they are stuck together driving hundreds of miles. She is driving him crazy. She has a habit of singing Christmas songs. He doesn't like it. But slowly his weary and jaded heart (or whatever it's called once not human) and he comes to like her. He knows she is his but that wasn't the promise he made her. He can't take her home or someone in his clan family will claim what is his if he can't claim her. So he must give her up. Or can he? Can he change her mind?
A beautiful story of a human female who comes to learn about vampires especially the one she is "stuck" with.

[Serena Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

´Dioses ayúdenme. No sabía que ella era una máquina de discos navideña ambulante cuando me inscribí en esto. Si lo hubiera hecho, podría haberlo reconsiderado o haber arrancado el estéreo del auto antes de salir a la carretera.’




•Mi opinión puede contener Spoilers.
•Esta destinada a ser un descargo personal no para que alguien más lea pero si lo haces y te ofende, me disculpo porque sé lo que es que te guste un libro y otros lo critiquen.



Silent Nights and Vampire Light de Sabrina Silvers

Argumento:

¿Qué es más acogedor que un viaje por carretera con un vampiro melancólico que es alérgico al sol? Un viaje por carretera con un vampiro melancólico en Navidad, obviamente.

Holly Winters está huyendo, y no solo de la soledad de la temporada; esta vez, es de la mafia. Ser testigo de un asesinato la ha llevado a la lista de los malos de algunos hombres muy peligrosos. Su plan de escape navideño se desbarata cuando la acorralan en una estación de tren nevada. Entra en escena Nicholas Frost: alto, moreno, misterioso y un poco no muerto. Él le salva la vida, pero ¿su precio por la protección? Holly tiene que llevarlo a casa.

Para Nicholas, este viaje por carretera no es más que un medio para un fin. Es un vampiro con siglos de antigüedad al que no le interesan las galletas de azúcar, los muñecos de nieve ni el incesante zumbido de los villancicos que sale de la mujer humana en el asiento del conductor. Pero mientras recorren las paradas festivas de los pueblos y las conversaciones nocturnas, la alegría navideña de Holly comienza a descongelar su actitud gélida.

Holly no está segura de qué es más loco: que esté viajando por carretera con un vampiro o que su gruñón y hermoso pasajero esté inspirando de alguna manera todo tipo de sentimientos navideños que ella no esperaba. ¿Y Nicholas? Está empezando a preguntarse si tal vez, solo tal vez, esta humana descarada y llena de sol es el mejor regalo que nunca supo que necesitaba.

¡Prepárate para un viaje por carretera lleno de alegría navideña, bromas irresistibles y algunas noches silenciosas muy acaloradas!



Mi humilde opinión:

Romance paranormal navideño, vampiro-humana, polos opuestos, viaje en carretera, varados por la nieve, una sola cama, proximidad forzada, atracción instantánea.

Nick Frost es un vampiro que es llamado a su casa para navidad al pueblo de Grimm Mawr, hace cien años que se fue de su casa por desacuerdos de ideas con su padre. No siente que su familia lo apoyo y ese dolor lo llevo a cerrar su corazon y estar en soledad. Cuando esta a punto de tomar el tren se da cuenta que una mujer esta en peligro y no duda en correr a ayudarla. Pronto descubrirá que su conductora es su pareja, nada menos que una humana.

Holly Winters es una repostera escapando de la mafia por presenciar un crimen. Para su sorpresa la rescata un vampiro peor que el mismísimo Grinch pero ella le hará amar la navidad y a ella también.

Me reí con las interacciones de los protagonistas. Holly insistió hasta que le contagio a la fuerza el espíritu navideño a Nick. Él tuvo que aguantar un viaje en carretera con canciones navideñas entonadas con alegría, paseos por mercados navideños, compra de regalos, chocolate caliente, besos bajo el muérdago y noches frías junto a una alegre humana que puede sea su pareja destinada.

Es un libro corto pero tenia una linda historia, buen desarrollo de los personajes, un romance acogedor y sexy, un divertido viaje en carretera con algo de peligro y acción, muchas vibras navideñas. El final me dejó sonriendo, Nick volviendo a casa con su familia que lo extrañó y Holly encontrando amor y un hogar.

[Gabrielle · Rating 2 out of 5]

While I really enjoyed them together this book was a huge mess that didn't make sense whatsoever (spoilers ahead):


they said ily in second act but then in third act she's surprised he said he loves her...again acting like that was new info when he literally said it for first time two days prior and he acts like that's the first time he said it as well? Then the mating bond being all over place didn't make sense since he shouldn't have been able to stay away or abandon her. His hot and cold was annoying too. Also his very valid reason for keeping her away from his fam for her safety is then turned into him being afraid of love umm what? Also his eye color changed one chapter to another: it was dark brown almost black then silver then amber? The editing was nonexistent it feels on this book that's only excuse I can think of for this messy plot jumping around/contradicting. It's really too bad because this would have a fun unique take on a Christmas book: I mean you have a vampire who saves someone and then makes her drive him half across the country home and she makes him get into the Christmas spirit lol but with all the mess contradictions it ruined it for me.

[Tima · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25 stars. Nicholas, the male vampire lead, is returning home after being away for decades because he believed that human-vampire relations could be established but others didn’t. About to board the train in a safe sleeping carriage, he is drawn to save a woman running from males.

Holly, the female human baker lead, witnessed something she shouldn’t have and now there are organised crime thugs chasing her to silence her permanently. When Nicholas saves her, she’s shocked, but she’s flummoxed by his demand that she chauffeur him to safety, even if he is offering her a new identity.

As they travel, they find themselves attracted to each other. But Nicholas remembers his home as being distinctly unsafe for humans and there’s nowhere outside it that is particularly safe for him…

This novella is dual POV, well written, and a sweet and steamy, opposites attract, contemporary, vampire/human, Christmas romance. I enjoyed Holly’s determined optimism in the face of her challenges. I enjoyed Nicholas’, initially grudging, acceptance of Holly’s foibles and detours on their trip. I enjoyed the way they learned to care for each other. I enjoyed the resolution for their love and am hoping this is the beginning of a series from the author.

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[Heather Dudley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Silent Nights and Vampire Lights had me on the edge of my seat the entire time I was reading the book. I absolutely did NOT want to set this book down for a single moment, I was completely captivated from beginning to end. This book has a captivating plot, wonderful characters, and a marvelous outcome for the main characters. I immediately fell in love with Nicholas and Holly as the main characters. I absolutely adored witnessing their relationship between Nicholas and Holly and I love that they got a happy ending. Author Sabrina Silvers has created another masterpiece of a romance book that I found to be quite entertaining and enjoyable to read. This is a book that I would HIGHLY recommend for anyone to checkout and give it a read. I’m looking forward to reading more amazing books from this author in the future.

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[Nikki Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holly is on the run after seeing something she shouldn't have. She almost makes it to the train when she is grabbed by two men. Nicholas, a vampire, is on his way home after being summoned by his mother when he sees a woman being dragged away. Rescuing Holly, Nicholas finds himself offering to help her and together they travel to his home where on the way Holly will get a new ID. As Holly and Nicholas spend time together he realizes who she is to him but he can't risk taking her back home as humans are not welcome. Nicholas will have to make a difficult decision and neither options appear to be safe for Holly. When Nicholas finally gets home he discovers that his fears were unfounded, but it may be too late. A beautiful Christmas short story that is heartwarming, spicy and full of drama. A lovely read for a cozy afternoon.

[Evelyn Dotson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Holly is on the run from the mob, she witnessed her employer being murdered. They keep finding her. When they caught up to her by a train going out of town, she thought her life was forfeit. Nicholas Frost is a vampire who has been around over 100 years. He is going home finally after trying to prove vampires and humans can live together. He is weary. He picked up a scent, looked, and saw a woman being dragged into an alley.

When he saves her, he discovers her name and what is going on. She decides to give him a ride to his home. In turn, he will protect her and give her a new identity. They run into problems along the way. Other times, they enjoy each other’s company. When they hold up in a B&B, everything will change. What can they do to stay together though? Will they work out the difficulties? A very sweet romantic book!

[Michelle Peralta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Holly is on the run after witnessing something dangerous, and just as she’s about to escape, she’s grabbed by two men. Nicholas, a brooding vampire, rescues her and offers to help, taking her on a journey to his home where she’ll get a new identity. As they travel together, Nicholas realizes Holly is more to him than he expected, but humans aren’t welcome in his world. He must make a tough choice—one that could put them both at risk.

Set in a charming Christmas backdrop, this short, steamy romance is full of heart, drama, and humor. Nicholas is the perfect grumpy yet protective hero, while Holly is the sweet sunshine girl who steals his heart. With plenty of banter, heat, and a satisfying HEA, this is a quick and enjoyable read for a cozy afternoon.

[Mercy Martinez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una historia corta para pasar el rato y sin pensar en nada más y con mucho toque navideño con el trope del Grumpy Sunshine.
Me encantaron mucho los personajes de Holly y Nicholas y como iban poco a poco quitando sus capas, más que todo por Nick quien era un vampiro solitario incluso mucho antes de conocer a Holly que no dejaba de pensar en el pasado y las acciones que lo llevaron a su exilio. No tengo nada malo que decir a menos que sea por la persecución de la huida de Holly que quedó en modo suspensivo con el hermano de Nick, Michael, y que fue sumamente corto y quedé con ganas de saber más de esos 20 años que fue el cambio que necesitaba la familia de Nicholas para convivir con los humanos que quedó en breves menciones de "nuevo comienzo".

[Emily Pennington · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holly and Nicholas’ Story . . .

Holly Winters witnessed the murder of her boss, and now she must run from the mob intent on silencing her. She almost makes it to a train when two men grab her and begin to drag her away. Luckily for her, however, Nicholas Frost, a vampire, rescues her. In return, he wants her to give him a ride home and he will continue to keep her safe. Holly brings joy to him on their travel with her upbeat attitude and love of the Christmas season. But he is concerned that she won’t fit into his lifestyle or family and he doesn’t want to put her in any danger. Will he have to give her up to keep her safe? Or will love find a way to keep them together?

[La'Jacinth · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was not what I expected it to be. I was pleasantly surpised of the angst and the story within a story.

Nicholas is more effected by his past of being a vampire and Holly efected by abandonment.

The anxiety of Christmas and going home, and being chansed by hitmen gave the story the depth that most dont find in 300 pages.

A cup of teas/hot chocolate and a nice blancket and prepare to laugh and cry while falling in love and learning that sometimes your past influences your future if you never change!!!!.

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[Beata Beatrix · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adventurous romance in charming Christmas settings.
🔸️Sabrina Silvers has a great talent to create fierce and dedicated protectors. Nicholas is another one in her collection of brooding, grumpy but sooooo lonely monstrous guys.
🔸️Romance has great banter with some hilarious comments.
Holly is an ultimate sweet sunshine girl, which goes directly under Nicholas's skin.
🔸️Entertaing, insta love-lust, easy to read.

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[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great fun short story to read. Nicholas, a vampire on his way home, saves Holly and they begin their journey to escape the mob.
It’s a light hearted story mostly but there is an undertone of whether Nicholas’s family will welcome him home. When Holly and Nicholas finally get together there are some steamy nights ahead.
An enjoyable story with a HEA.

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[Debdutch · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Silent Nights and Vampire Lights” by Sabrina Silvers is a delightful mix of holiday warmth and paranormal intrigue. Holly’s sunny resilience pairs beautifully with Nicholas’ brooding, protective nature, creating a sweet yet spicy romance. The story offers adventure, humor, and heartfelt moments in a cozy Christmas setting. Perfect for fans of opposites-attract romances with a supernatural twist.
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[sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a cute action packed Holiday Vampire Romance. The story is very entertaining. Poor Holly saw her boss be killed. Now she's on the run for her life. Luckily Nicolas shows up just in time to help her out. In the end she's the one whole helps him out by making him participate in Christmas activities whether he likes it or not. Check this holiday story out.

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[Leanne Bryson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun holiday vampire read that was surprisingly good. It might be an odd premise, but Sabrina Silvers does a great job pulling this off. Nicholas and Holly go off on a road trip and have an intense chemistry that surprises them both. Well-paced, with interesting characters, sizzle, steam, and a few surprises. A solid 4-star read.

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[Victoria Golby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Road trip with a vampire

A sweet and fun Christmas romance. Holly finds herself on the run from the mafia after witnessing a kill and finds herself saved by a vampire who only wants a lift home as payment. Nicholas isn't interested in the Christmas spirit Holly fills her car with but travelling together at nighttime he finds himself slowly growing fond of the cheer and the driver.

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[Ann Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sweet and funny romance Holly was cute and so likeable as she found herself on the run after witnessing a murder. Nicholas was a brooding vampire who saves Holly and asks her to drive him home. An adorable story with a lovely ending.

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[Melanie Purcell · Rating 5 out of 5]

More than a few laugh out loud moments as a vampire grinch and his sunshine human navigate Christmas festivities! Loved the chemistry with these two and enjoyed the underlying character development. Nothing like upending assumptions to keep it lively!.

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[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! Holly and Nicholas are fantastic characters who balance each other perfectly. I have a folder where I save books I want to read again, and this is one of them. The plot is intense and has several unexpected twists. So look for this book to engage you like it did me. Excellent book!

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[Andi Downs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another quick read for the season and features Holly, on the run from the mob and who ends up being saved by Nicholas, a vampire. I loved their banter, his frustration and her determination to make the most of the season. :D
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[L KQ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Road Trip Home

Danger, road trip, and Christmas spirit blend into an intriguing paranormal romance with a bit of humor to lighten up the vibe. Nicholas and Holly have such intense chemistry. Once they give in to their desires, it electrified the pages. This was a fun read.

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[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nicholas & Holly: A Grimm Mawr Holiday Romance: Vampire Grinch & sunshine Holly/ on the run/ roadtrip/ forced proximity/ one bed/ Christmas RomCom: Sweet & spicy quick read. I enjoyed Nicholas and Holly’s banter. The storyline was fun and exciting, perfect read for the holiday season.

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[Shayay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read! Christmas time hijinks and romance with a vampire! Entertaining! Like the bit of suspense from Holly being a bit on the run after witnessing a crime too. Plus, a bit of adventure with a road trip. Really enjoyed the read! Great for the season!

[ajscenic · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this story. I thought that the dynamic between Holly and Nicholas was excellent. It made be laugh with all of the fun and games Holly dragged Nicholas into. I thought their chemistry sizzled and I loved how Holly made Nicholas feel alive.
This is an excellent Christmas read!

[Ladnamal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nicholas was such a hilariously grumpy grinch while Holly was a total ball of Christmas sunshine. I loved how they tolerated each other out of necessity at first before slowly falling in love.

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