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.
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.
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?
Chapter 1 Rhys Davis reined in the stocky bay gelding at the crest of the ridge. To his watchful gaze, the valley below yawned black and threatening. He heard the muffled sounds as Liam Malone checked his horse just to Rhys’ left. After that, he couldn’t hear a thing—silence, a profound and unusual silence. Not quite total, though, for, after a moment, he could hear the horses breathing and a whispery sigh of the fitful breeze, but not the usual small noises of the night, no coyotes or night birds. Too quiet, unnaturally quiet. He tugged the night vision goggles free of his jacket and settled them over his eyes. As the wind slipped in through the opening he made at his neck, he shivered. The late-November night’s stillness seemed to add to the chill. They might be far south, but they wer