Delicious Sin. Bad Apples Series, #1

"Delicious Sin" is a standalone contemporary romance novel in the "Bad Apples" series._____Eli Mattis had run the streets of New York City at an early age. He fell in with the wrong crowd and started making some bad choices. He was considered a bad apple throughout the neighborhood. However, that all changed at the age of twelve when his dad was sent to prison and his mom died. Eli was put in a church foster care since he had no close relatives and no other foster care program was willing to take him in.
It was there he met Sister Mary Agnes, who didn't give up on the bad apple and after years of persistence, finally, helped Eli turn over a new leaf. Naira Kang has been working hard in New York City as a lawyer. She hadn't always wanted to be a lawyer. She had other goals and dreams for herself, but when Naira was younger and her grandmother was going to be deported Naira learned how important the judicial system was.
Sister Mary Agnes had come to her family's rescue by finding a lawyer. A lawyer who helped keep their family together. It was at that moment Naira decided she wanted to be a lawyer and help other people. Fast forward ten years...  Eli has become a man, who makes Sister Mary Agnes proud. He is a hard worker and helps those in need, especially women and children. When Eli sees an altercation between a man and a woman, he doesn't hesitate to come to the woman's rescue.
But when the cops show up, Eli is arrested and thrown in Jail. Using his one phone call he calls Sister Mary Agnes, who comes and bails him out without hesitation. She gives him an address to a lawyer who will change his life forever. Naira Kang.