The Twelve by Stuart Neville

Holding Hands

Marie McKenna is a guilty woman. Guilty of loving a man on the wrong side of the Republican divide, and exiled for it. When a family tragedy occurs, she refuses to fade into the background and makes her presence known. But there are those who don’t take kindly to traitors, and she soon realises the price of her independence.

Fegan knows she needs to leave, but her stubbornness forces him to intervene. Desperate to prevent another innocent from becoming a by-product of a political war, he decides to help. But like it or not, the closer she is, the closer to death she becomes, while a child’s simple act faces him with a dilemma that has no easy answer.