The Bellandis and DeLucas have spent years watching each other. Now someone is using both families to start a war.Alessia DeLuca has spent her life writing the decisions powerful men take credit for. When proof surfaces that a stolen Bellandi transport seal is moving illicit cargo through DeLuca territory, she summons the one man she should never trust: Dante Bellandi, newly made underboss, lethal field commander, and the enemy already watching her routes.Their private meeting ends in blood.To keep Chicago from erupting, the two families impose the Western Corridor Accord: Dante and Alessia must share command from the Boundary House, where every transport, detention, and strike requires both signatures. Dante believes protection gives him the right to close every breach. Alessia has spent too long being protected into silence to let another man decide where her boundaries belong.Then the surveillance becomes personal. The arguments become touches. And the man who can make armed crews move with one order discovers that the fastest way to undo Alessia is to obey hers.But the missing seal is still moving, and the evidence points inward. If Dante and Alessia cannot expose the people selling their territory before the families turn on each other, their alliance will end in war, and whatever is growing between them will become another weapon.TERRITORY is Book 2 of THE BELLANDIS, an interconnected standalone Italian mafia romance with rival families, forced alliance, he-falls-first devotion, a powerful heroine, high heat, and a complete HEA.