Comfort and Joy

About this book

Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: hes a young doctor possessing good looks good breeding and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents attentive to his future focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry. But how charmed is this life when Fords own heart suspects that he is not meant to spend his life with a woman? His suspicions are confirmed when he meets Dan Crell. Dan is a quiet man with a great voice. Behind the tempered facade of the shy hospital administrator is a singer who can transform a room with his soaring voice leaving his listeners in awe and reverence. Ford catches one such Christmas concert and his life is never quite the same; he is touched in a place he keeps hidden forbidden. When Ford and Dan begin to explore the limits of their relationship Dans own secrets are exposed--and his mysterious and painful childhood returns to haunt him. In Comfort and Joy Jim Grimsley finds a marriage between the stark and stunning pain of his prize-winning Winter Birds and the passion of critically acclaimed Dream Boy. In this his fourth novel he considers pressing questions. How does a man reconcile the child he was raised to be with the man that he truly is? What happens when an adult has to choose between his parents and a lover?