Charles and Philip Barnett have settled down to raise their children, but their domesticity is disrupted when Philip's nephew Steve is delivered to their doorstep early one morning after being beaten senseless by his homophobic father.<br><br>So the family grows, but of course, that's the easy part. A rabidly fundamentalist sheriff and a gay-bashing incident leave Steve and his new boyfriend in legal hot water and at the mercy of the deputies' harassment, and Charles must once again take up the fight for justice for his loved ones.

Triumph

When we arrived at the school, I drove slowly along the street that made a large circuit of the campus. At about the halfway mark, we heard a bell ring and the area between the buildings was suddenly filled with boys of all ages, all of them dressed uniformly in dark-blue blazers and khaki pants.


“Wow,” Jeff said, “they look pretty cool.”


“Yeah, they look pretty much like the guys back home, except they’re dressed better,” Rob said


Thank you, guys, I thought, for bolstering the argument in favor of uniforms. Then I said, “So, Steve, what do you think?”


“I hate to admit it, Uncle Philip, but I guess I’m impressed.”


“And well you should be. Those boys’ parents pay a lot of money to have them in this school, and the boys get a superb education in return. By the time they’re seniors, they’ll have the best colleges in the country begging them to enroll.”


Chapter 15