The Bear | CL

They call him the bear, merciless, unmovable, and feared by all. Orso Alighieri doesn’t forgive, doesn’t bend, and doesn’t love. His empire is built on blood, silence, and the weight of his name.

Until Alba.

She’s everything he should destroy, too soft, too innocent, too unafraid of the monster he is. But the moment she steps into his world, Orso knows he can not let her go. She is his weakness, his obsession, his undoing.

Yet loving the bear means stepping into a life where loyalty is survival, betrayal is a death sentence, and enemies are always watching. As the Alighieri empire grows, so do the threats circling them, and the price of keeping Alba safe might be more than Orso is willing to pay.

This is their story, violent, obsessive, and all-consuming.

But in the world of the Alighieri, every brother has his demons, and every love comes with blood on its hands.

Tropes: dark romance, mafia, enemies to lovers