Chapter 1“Viva Las Vegas!” Ted Star exclaimed upon arrival from on high, landing outside the spacious two-million-dollar mansion his earthly son, Gideon, inhabited with his husband, Rudy. Towering palm trees against a backdrop of desert, contemporary, stacked stone outside gave way to a grand covered porte-cochere. Normal beings entered there, landing in an elegant living space with limestone flooring and soaring ceilings replete with whitewashed beams. These visitors, though their everyday street clothes would have allowed them to mingle among any other Vegas tourists and not be recognized as angels if seen, entered another, more magical way.
“Technically, Dad, we’re in a rather distant suburb,” kindergartener Beth pointed out. “And you say that every time we come here.”
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