Strays by Cora Brent

A troubled ex con, the child he was never supposed to meet, and a feisty grad student who refuses to give up on love…

Before age sixteen I was kicked to the streets. Since then I’ve been living up to a violent legacy.
Which is why a man like me isn’t cut out to be a dad. And if this kid had another option I wouldn’t try to be one now.
But for once I’m going to step up. I’ll try to be better than I am for the sake of my son.
I don’t know if I’ll ever be free of my sins.

I do know it might not be wise to get close enough to find out. Into this chaos walks Isabella Gentry.
She was warned to keep her distance. I was the one who warned her.
She’s beautiful and hopeful and headstrong and spoiled. And, thanks to a weird chain of events, she’s also my freaking roommate.
A part of me wants to turn her world upside down in the cruelest way imaginable.
The rest of me wants to worship the ground she walks on. This can go one of two ways.
Either I’ll decide to be the worst version of myself. Or I’ll surrender the past in order to build a family and a future.
And maybe along the way I’ll prove something. That the villain everyone loves to hate might be redeemable yet…

**STRAYS is a complete stand alone.**