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

“If not the divine kind, the humans who’ve reached out, like you guys.”


“Well, Mae set a lot of it into motion, so if anyone’s an angel, it’s her.”


“I’m gonna go,” he said. “But, um, I’ll do my best to stay in touch…write…call. My brother, he, uh, wrote a lot of letters while deployed. Old-fashioned, ya know.”


“Write us anytime, old fashioned or online. However you want to keep in touch, we’re good, as long as you do.”


Even with the first cold snap of autumnal air now in place, the six of us plus two pets sat outside at the picnic table well after sunset, waiting to see a pair of birds—though none of us ever said as much. Did Jefferson feel ready to return to Heaven? Had Daniel been waiting for the other half of the mission to be complete before he left? Not a single cardinal appeared. Not a trill to be heard.


Chapter 54