At seventeen Keith is a troubled young man from a broken home. At thirty-four, Karen is a strict but lonely Spanish teacher working her first teaching job at the inner-city East Vancouver high school Keith attends. Following a common thread through their lives for a decade, love causes them to do things they’d never thought they’d do, pushing them to the brink of personal ruin, and nearly into death. A bold working-class romance, “Crossed Lines” shows obsessive love in the satisfaction it can provide and horrifying consequences it can entail. When followed blindly and against all reason the single-minded pursuit of happiness leads Keith and Karen instead to pain, suffering, and the destruction of lives. $2.99 on Kindle.