When his snobbish future in-laws travel all the way from Boston to visit, wise-cracking Southerner Wiley Cantrell learns gay marriage is not without its disadvantages. He’s preoccupied by concerns over the health of his special needs son Noah, a meth baby who was not expected to live yet is now on the cusp of puberty, and the antics of Wiley's outrageous would-be mother-in-law and severely conservative father-in-law strain his relationship with Jackson Ledbetter, a pediatric nurse who poses problems of his own. As their respective families meet and greet, each just as meddlesome and inflexible as the other, North meets South and the fireworks and cultural misunderstandings are plenty.<br><br>Then a tornado blows through the small Mississippi town where Wiley's mother lives, wrecking his mother's house and leaving their lives in disarray. And Jackson's secret drug addiction comes to light, devastating Wiley and Noah. With so many stones in the road, Wiley and Jackson find their dream of becoming a real family falling apart. Though Wiley relies on humor to cope, he'll need something more to keep his happily ever after from slipping away.

Stones in the Road

“We saw a woman at the gas station, didn’t we, dear?” she went on, addressing herself to Stephen.


“Heavens!” Mrs. Ledbetter exclaimed. “She was the ugliest woman I think I’ve ever seen. I didn’t realize people could be so ugly. Then she opened her mouth and started talking and, good Lord, those teeth! She was missing her two front teeth, and the rest of them—well, let’s just say that they can restore the Sistine Chapel, but they’re never going to restore those teeth on that poor woman. I think I was actually frightened a little. But she was the friendliest woman I’ve ever met, and she carried on with her Southern drawl, and her y’alland I reckonand oh shucks!and she was the sweetest thing. We were lost, weren’t we, dear? Jackie was taking us to that Civil War cemetery, and we had quite lost the way. It was in Oklahoma or something.”


Chapter 89