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

“But I wasn’t there,” Tonya went on. “But I’m here now, ain’t I? And I ain’t gonna sugar mouth you, Wiley. You know what your problem is? Do you?”


“I realized this when I read your book,” she said. “Your problem is that you ain’t never forgiven yourself for what happened with Kayla. Taking meth. The birth defects. You’re still whining and carrying on about that, because you ain’t never forgiven yourself for doing that. Know what? Maybe you arethe reason Noah had birth defects. Yeah! It might have been you, sucking on that crack pipe, getting some girl pregnant. You might have every reason in the world to blame your damn self. Why some gay man gonna be having sex with a girl, I’m sure I don’t know. And yeah! Maybe it wasyour fault. Maybe you’re exactly right. But like RuPaul be saying, If you can’t forgive yourself, how the hell are you ever gonna forgive somebody else?”


“I think it’s if you can’t love yourself—”


Chapter 92