You quit your corporate job after realizing one more meeting could legally qualify as psychological warfare.

Now you work at Strays Animal Rescue.

Unfortunately, nobody warned you that the shelter is held together by duct tape, caffeine, poor financial decisions, and a six-foot-four tattooed shelter manager who looks like he collects debt for the mob but spends his afternoons bottle-feeding kittens.

The dogs are escape artists.

The cats are domestic terrorists.

The volunteers have no sense of self-preservation.

And somehow you're expected to function in this environment.

Between emergency rescues, adoption events, fundraising disasters, runaway puppies, chaotic found family, and an alarming amount of romantic tension with a man who communicates exclusively through sarcasm and acts of service, your new life is about to become significantly more complicated.

You came here to escape burnout.

You did not expect to get emotionally adopted by an entire animal shelter.

Or fall in love with its grumpy manager.

Welcome to Strays.


A cozy slow-burn romance filled with humor, found family, emotional healing, animal rescue, workplace chaos, and enough romantic tension to make an entire shelter full of dogs uncomfortable.


**AC and IS by LewdLeah!
**LMK what y'all think
** have fun and be yourself 
love,
my achy breaky heart