Stay Awake

For five years, Vivi Hayes has lived by a single rule: never let anyone get close enough to break you twice. Ever since a catastrophic car crash in Philadelphia left her with physical scars and a fractured soul, she's mastered the art of running. As a traveling clinic worker, she keeps her bags perpetually half-packed, her heart locked in a vault, and her past buried where no one can find it.

Until she meets Cam Dawson.

Rugged, steady, and fiercely protective, the local firefighter and EMT is the first man in half a decade to slip past her defenses. He challenges her walls, listens to her late-night confessions, and makes the quiet town of Oakhaven feel dangerously like home. Just as Vivi starts to believe she might finally be ready to risk her heart, the dark secrets of Cam's own past come to light-revealing a shocking, invisible connection to the very tragedy she has spent years trying to outrun.

Reeling from the revelation and terrified of the intimacy she fought so hard to avoid, Vivi packs her bags to run one last time. But Cam refuses to let her disappear without a fight.

Stay Awake is a gripping, emotionally charged romance about trauma, redemption, and the courage it takes to stop running and finally let yourself be saved.