Crossing Checkpoint Éire

The border never stopped being a battlefield.

Cian O'Donnell grew up learning which roads to avoid, which flags meant danger, and how to cross a line that was never meant to exist.
James McBride grew up learning how to follow orders - even when they cut straight through home.

They were once inseparable.
Now one runs the border, and the other enforces it.

When Cian is caught crossing into Northern Ireland in the dead of night, the soldier who arrests him isn't a stranger - it's the boy who left, wearing a British uniform and holding all the power.

What follows is a dangerous reunion threaded with old loyalty, buried love, and choices that could get them both killed. With eyes on them from every side, trusting each other is the most reckless thing they can do.

Because in a country still divided,
loving the wrong person is treason.