'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
--Miguel de Cervantes
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Davy Buckland wants to learn more about the signal box and Nathaniel Bixby is only too happy to show him the ropes.
Autumn, 1913. Davy Buckland, a boiler cleaner in the engine shed at the local station, was nineteen when he took a shine to the signalman at the nearby Oakwood Junction. He didn't know much about Nathaniel Bixby, but he recognised a man who could show him the ropes and the isolated signal box where he worked could provide the perfect hideaway for their clandestine games. But in their world two men sharing any love, let alone this kind of love, was a dangerous thing and while the lovers grew bolder and their secret passion bigger, the clouds of war were closing in.
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