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Good for Josh! Standing up to his parents and rooting for his beloved Daniel! Why had Daniel's parents been crying? Will we find that out? And Josh's parents not crying! They the ones should be crying. They should be in the rehab with their Rev Shaw getting the treatment to have their minds straightened. They the ones with the crooked bent minds. Makes you so mad, especially when it's done in the name of the Lord who would not do this. God, religious people stink. They stank when You walked the earth and they continue to stink today. Bloody religious bigots. They all need to be burnt as witches! Get their own bloody medicine! Sorry. This really sent me on a rant. Lost all my Christianity in the process!

Sorry. I have heard such places existed, and maybe still do, but am finding it hard to believe that is really so. Can you point me to someplace on the internet where I could verify this? Do things like this really happen in the civilized world? It's tantamount to criminal activity under the guise of religion and disgustingly abhorrent. It is actually an abomination in the sight of the Lord! Make room for me on the soap box too!

This situation of them going back to Josh's home is like living in the lion's den. I don't like it at all. Too fraught with danger. Too much living in the enemy camp! Please get them out quickly without a big drama.

You sure know how to heat up the action and keep your readers in terrible suspense!

Beautiful! What a fantastic description of a good first time experience for Josh. Daniel is beautiful so if he's modeled on you, you must be too; but then we know that from your great writing that you are a beautiful soul! Thanks for sharing.

One is certainly drawn by you into Daniel and a little scared for Josh, though the terrifying scariness of Daniel seems countered by his amazing gentleness and appreciation of Josh's nervousness and innocence. Daniel had to have something more to him than this outward appearance of danger or he would never have been attracted to Josh. He is seeing more in Josh than Josh is even aware of. Seeing beyond the geekiness of him. Josh is in for the ride of his life. Wish I had had a Daniel to draw me out when I was that age. My life would have been a totally different story which I want now, but maybe it would not have been so good. Well, your story, as usual is challenging me and making me think and want to read on. Such a distraction!

Finished and satisfied. Deeply! No disappointments! You took it to a great end! Well done! I really loved it all the way. Absolutely made my day today! And thanks for the response to the reviews and even adding little personal snips in. I felt I got to know you a bit thru this as well as knowing Isaac and Connor. Thank you so much!

So good! Facing his giants with the help of his lover and his friends. Great stuff! I love it!

Riveting! I've been lost in it and really need to tear myself away and get some stuff done. Then I can come back and finish this.

So beautiful! Well done! Very satisfying and fulfilling. So well written!

Yes, I see there is hope and light. Something tells me that Connor is not family either. You mention the different surnames in the scuffle and I think there's reason in that. And Connor is hiding something that will show us why he's like this. Isaac strangely will be the one who can help him come to healing. Very intriguing! I love it. You do such a splendid job of developing the story and the characters and playing your readers too. And, by the way. I had realized that Isaac's exposure in prison would have exposed him to the worst of expletives. Perhaps a mention of his struggling with the expression the first time he uses it and finding it strange but satisfying to utter, will make it less jarring. Small thing but probably will give the whole incident more credence. This is teaching grandmother to suck eggs. Sorry. Not that you are grandmother either! So sorry again! I'm behaving a little like Connor now, opening my mouth and sticking my big foot in it!

Wow! I keep saying that. Becoming a bit of a cliche! But you are blowing me away again by showing us Connor's big heart and making us see how much like Isaac he is in his hurt and rejection and consequent rebellion. So now we all fall in love with him together with Isaac. And then what? Is there some future in this or are we heading for terrible disaster for both and for all the rest of the family too? I can't bear that! It will, as Grandma says, end up hurting them both and that will kill them and her and all the rest too. Please let it end now in some pain and some hurt rather than go further and cause a tsunami.

Really good, as usual. One forgets Isaac is so so innocent and has been through so so much, and you portray that so effectively in this chapter. Poor Isaac. Struggling to present some sense of normality and everything is skew, how can he get it sorted in a few easy steps, just not possible. Very realistic this. And Connor is so enticing and alluring. He's like the spider drawing in the fly in his attractiveness. But I see you make him a real softie under it all too. Very interesting to see where this all goes. Thanks for responses to earlier comments. I like that and also shows you watching the entries. That's good! It's really good to have some interaction on this site. I had not picked up that you weren't American either but from UK, until recent chapters. That's refreshing.

Good as ever. Love your writing.

Ah, more tears! I think by the time I'm finished here I won't have anything left to cry! Beautiful and joyful tears now! Thank you!

So touching! So many beautiful surprises to make up for all the horrible things that have happened. So beautiful! Thank you!

Wow! Beautiful! I love it! Thank you! All of it! So good!

Good as ever. Just can't put this down! I like Jon too! Wow! Imagine waking up and finding you had a brother like him! It's so romantic! I don't think Isaac would be using common expletives like the rest of the world, even in his thoughts, so you might want to edit those out of Isaacs natural thinking at this stage. I'm sure He'll get there pretty quickly but I don't think he would be there yet! Sorry! That jarred for me!

Good as ever. You don't disappoint. Can't wait for the next chapter so no time for a long review here.

Interesting chapter. Isaac comes to terms with himself being gay in a dream? Wish it was like that for me. More likely to be the nightmare that survives; but is that because you are saying that Isaac is strong enough to be himself and accept himself no matter what others put on him? Well, you have made him out to be strong and he is coming thru more and more as the knight in shining armor, the hero who comes out the winner no matter what, who survives suicide, poisoning, strangling, and all the other unmentionable things Caleb tried on him. So let's see what happens to our hero as he starts a new life.

Well, that is a huge relief from the tension and soooo much better! Lots of good things now to look forward to. Thanks for a really great read! You are really something as a writer! Wow!

Another very intense chapter! You want us all to turn into vegetables with the anxiety of the waiting? We are all feeling what Ruth is feeling, what Kate is feeling. Trust the next chapter brings some relief. Don't know whether I can take much more of this!

Ah, I'm as wrung out as Katie now, but think it would be better he dies than come back not altogether there. Such an intense chapter. Too many tears! My God you are so good!

OMG I just want to read on to find out he's going to be OK. Surely he doesn't die now! That's too much, too cruel! I have to find out and read the next chapter. So glad I'm not reading this incomplete and waiting desperately for this next chapter to be published. That's too much agony! Must find that next chapter - NOW!

Ah, the romantic chapter! So sweet! But not quite what I had expected and maybe a little too much of the unreal here. Perhaps a bit out of my ken? Maybe? Teary, yes! But real? Not so sure about that. Will have to see what the coming chapters bring as the story is not over by a long shot. Still a lot of chapters to go on this I am glad to see, so perhaps we will get back into a tougher harder reality than this. I like that more, though the romance is fun.