From a tiny acorn grows a mighty oak, so it is with love. Undaunted by rain, snow, thunder and lighting, and even a tornado, Goose and Patrick weathered many storms from first meeting to marriage. By their side through it all, Jefferson and Calvin shared their own love story as Goose and Patrick’s guides through the present and the past and their guardian angels in Heaven and on Earth. Contains the stories: Ghost Writer: Goose is finally allowing himself to feel something again, something like love. He and Jefferson have both been through a lot, war and escaping their abusive exes. There are two problems, though. Jefferson belongs to someone else, and he’s a ghost. While Goose tries to save a tree planted by Jefferson’s lover over a hundred years ago, Jefferson tries to heal Goose’s heart, broken far too long. Snowed In: Goose and Patrick: Four men, two in this realm and two in another, fight all sorts of obstacles, including war, separation, family dysfunction, racial prejudice, homophobia, and their own inner demons to fall in love and explore or recapture their sexuality. Each pair, from this century and one in the past, help the other along the way. Nine Minutes in Heaven: Goose’s lover Patrick ends up on one side of the light, with Jefferson and Calvin. Goose’s family and his dog, Wilbur, are on this side. When Goose is seriously injured and faced with a choice between Heaven and Earth, he finds the decision impossible to make, which could result in him being stuck somewhere in between. Ghosts of Honor: Goose and Patrick have weathered many storms, literally, a massive blizzard and figuratively, death. Will a tornado on their wedding day, a group of ghostly crashers, Goose’s distraction, and Patrick’s lingering emotional pain after the attack be too much to make it through this time?

Weathering the Storms Box Set

Boyish games and picking buttercups dotting the greens, like little rays of sunshine yellow, became something altogether different that summer, when the chicory that touched bare flesh as we tumbled over the knoll wrapped together was not the only stiff probe I felt at my back. I could dream of Thomas forever, now, as we’re separated and forced apart before we even came to be together. This war, I know what is right and what must be defended, but I damn it, too, and wish I didn’t have to go. If I return to him, to Thomas, will he be bearded and round at the belly, or will his youthful firmness and smooth face remain? Will I have changed? War, they say, can affect a man as nothing else can. Who will I be? What will the world be? My small part of it, a mere speck in what is out there beyond my imagination, let alone my access, what will I leave when I’m gone?


Chapter 6