First-year Border Patrol officers Rhys Davis and Liam Malone have been friends since second grade. When their new assignment puts them on the front line in tracking down a vicious and inhuman killer, an unearthly Soul-Eater, along the southern border, they must call on every resource at their disposal.<br><br>The most potent of these resources turns out to be memories they share from two thousand years ago, a time in the British Isles when they were partners in every way, forming an eternal bond that allowed them to defeat this same enemy in that lifetime.<br><br>Now, Rhys and Liam can't help but wonder...will crossing the line from friends to lovers in this lifetime destroy their friendship or build on it?

Borders and Shadows

By dint of sheer willpower, Rhys jerked himself free of the dream and back into the present. Small wonder he&rsquo;d dreamed of death and danger after the horrific night they&rsquo;d spent guarding the mangled corpse and the crime scene until law enforcement personnel arrived about three o&rsquo;clock. The miasma was enough to mess with anyone&rsquo;s mind, but why did he dream of a totally different place and time, a dream that seemed too vivid to be less than a memory? He could still feel the coarse fabric of his robe and the smooth wood of his crutch. He smelled the musty smoke of smoldering peat fires and the odors of sweat, fear and blood hanging in damp air, air touched with the perfume of the sea. Nothing was at all like the high desert he&rsquo;d known his whole life, yet, uncannily, it all seemed familiar.


Chapter 3