Stay With Me

Two childhood friends are brought together as children, and their bond deepens until fate ties them together as family rather than lovers. Years later, captivity forces them to face everything they tried to bury, and they cling to each other as they fight to survive.

Stay With Me is a dark contemporary romance by Luna K. Wicked, an independent paperback of about 514 pages published in February 2026, with an audiobook edition listed later in the year. It is a forbidden, second-chance love story with an explicit open-door level of heat.

Readers describe it as very heavy and among the darkest romances they have read, so it is worth checking the content warnings before starting.