Matteo Accardi is tasked with protecting his girlfriend from the demons of their past while saving his restaurant from closing as the COVID-19 pandemic rages across the globe. With his old crime boss breathing down his neck and the profits from his once-thriving business plummeting, Matteo sinks everything he has into his relationship.

The only thing is… can he be there for the one he loves the most without inviting trouble?Violet Kimball has done the impossible: she has escaped the brutality of her ex-fiancé and fallen in love with a man who will stop at nothing to keep her safe. She has everything she’s ever wanted until her once close-knit family starts to unravel as the world turns upside down and she learns that her perfect boyfriend has a violent past that involves murder.

Is she willing to trade one form of violence for another?Stay Scared, the second installment of the Stay With Me series takes an in-depth look at how global crises can change not just the world around us, but fracture our personal lives, robbing us of everything we once thought was permanent and solid. .