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

He was surprised how many sites were devoted to Celtic pagan beliefs, neo-druids and similar topics. Not many seemed to offer a way for a mortal human, or even a couple of them, vanquish a completely inhuman and impossible monster, though. In that he recognized he was on his own. Liam could give him energy and support, but Liam had not been the Druid, had only brought his warrior skills, his forthright devotion and some degree of belief to the challenge. Channeling the power and the magic was Rhys&rsquo; job. And this time he had not gone through the years of training from early boyhood to adult, had not sat at the feet of masters and mages who had held vast knowledge now long forgotten.


Chapter 17