Border Crossings is the story of an American woman, Kathy OFaolain, happily married to Pearse, an Irish professor at Trinity College. Life in Dublin is good for the OFaolain family until Pearse receives word that Protestant extremists have murdered his brother, a Sinn Fein councilor in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Kathys ordered life falls apart when relatives convince Pearse to return to his family home in Enniskillen and take over his brothers work in the Republican cause. Kathy, with her young son, Sean, must adapt to life in a violent society, and by doing so, finds her personality changing in ways that are both positive and negative. Contemporary Womens Fiction by Carole Bellacera; originally published by Forge