Goose and Patrick are getting married! One year after their courtship began, months after facing death, the family is expanding, and the pair can’t wait to exchange vows, happy to have the legal right to do so, when others did not. Wedding plans ensue, but all is not well.<br><br>For starters, Jefferson and Daniel are still separated, stranded on Earth as other people. As Patrick deals with the physical and mental aftereffects of his attack, Goose becomes obsessed with reuniting his favorite pair of angels. As if that wasn’t enough, more ghosts begin to appear to Goose and Patrick, setting off a new mystery both become consumed with solving.<br><br>Who are these spirits desperate for contact? How do they tie back to Jefferson and Daniel, and will Goose and Patrick be able to bring that pair back together? Will the wedding go on if they can’t?

Ghosts of Honor

“I’m sorry if the children are confused,” Carrie said. “I’m confused myself, sometimes, not about how I feel, but how to act. Out of concern for everyone else…trying to do what I thought would put most people at ease, I made the choice to use the men’s room when here. Maybe that was wrong. It felt wrong. It probably was for everyone. I made a mistake.”


“We all do,” an older woman in the crowd said. “We’re all human.”


“Yes.” Another mother, one I knew by sight if not by name, seconded the thought. “None of us are perfect.” The way she looked at Kyler’s mother could only be described as a glare.


“As for the particular incident we’re here about,” Carrie continued, “I was helping another child wash up after an apple juice eruption, when Kyler came in to use the bathroom. You saw us all as we came out, two of us, first, and then Kyler.”


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