Bitter Sweet (The Layers of Love Collection)

Alession Corvo was conditioned to rule with blood on his hands and ice in his veins.

As the eldest heir to one of the most powerful mafia families in the country, loyalty is everything, weakness is fatal, and love has always come with consequences. Haunted by a past draped in tragedy and burdened by the safety of his family, Alession keeps everyone at a distance—including the siblings he would kill for to protect.

Then people start disappearing. Trafficking rings surface across Corvo territory, bodies pile up, and whispers of betrayal spread through the underground. Someone within their world is feeding information to the enemy, and if Alession can’t uncover who it is fast enough, his family won’t survive the fallout.

Marlowe arrives with three men carrying forged identities and enough secrets to complicate everything. After surviving a past filled with chains, brutality, and captivity, Marlowe should be broken—but she isn’t. Instead, she crashes into Alession’s carefully controlled world and forces him to confront the darkness he’s spent years burying.

Because for the first time in his life, someone touches him without fear.

A dark mafia romance filled with obsessive devotion, found family, political betrayal, supernatural undertones, trauma healing, and a love story forged in violence.