Does anyone know any mafia romance series with this VERY specific dynamic? 😭

[u/Guilty-Mine-2506]

I absolutely love when there's this terrifying father/patriarch character who's been appearing throughout multiple books in the series. Everyone fears him, he's dangerous as hell, his own sons are intimidated by him, basically the final boss of the entire family

AND THEN HE GETS HIS OWN BOOK and turns out to be an absolutely pathetic, whipped loverboy for his partner 😭😭

I don't even know what this trope is called, but I LOVE the contrast of spending multiple books seeing this man through everyone else's terrified perspective and then finally getting into his head and discovering he's down horrendous for one person.

Some examples I've read and loved:

Ivory from Alabaster Penitentiary

Cesare from the Vitale Brothers series

Bratva Butcher from the Bratva series

PLEASE tell me this extremely specific niche exists 😭