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

Goose turned to me when a fife and drum band started by.


“Playing a fife,” he said. “Like, he would have two hundred years ago.”


“Even before Jefferson and Daniel’s time.”


“Yes. He was there, and then he wasn’t.”


“Samuel,” I wanted to say. Goose’s smile gave me encouragement. “Samuel. I think his name is Samuel.”


“We’re good at this together. There’s Steve!”


“Steve, the EMT.” Goose waved, but Steve, playing drums in the same band, looked straight ahead, like a pro.


Goose called him after the parade, as we wandered the periphery of the fair, more spectating than participating. Rip and Carrie were on the Ferris wheel when Steve got back to us. He wasn’t far, so he met us there, and we all waved when the ride paused with Carrie and Nami at the top, in front of Rip, being rocked furiously by some total stranger in the car right behind.


“I didn’t know you were in a band,” Goose said to Steve.


Chapter 49