Years have gone by since the death of Noah his special needs son, and Wiley Cantrell realizes it’s time to move on. He and his husband Jackson try to adopt little Tony Gorzola, a deaf boy with HIV who is emotionally traumatized.<br><br>Difficulties quickly set in. Tony is a sweet boy but very damaged by abuse and neglect. And Tony’s mother, in prison, is unwilling to relinquish her parental rights. No sooner do they get the go ahead to foster Tony when another child they had considered becomes available -- the daughter Jackson always wanted.<br><br>With two children on their hands, life is complicated -- wonderfully so. But just as things begin to settle down, Tony, his immune system compromised, falls ill with pneumonia ... and Wiley and Jackson find their little family faced with crisis once again.

Go Tell It on the Mountains

“I was approached, yes,” I admitted. “Nothing definite, though. It was just an idea.”


“I hear James Cameron wants to direct,” Mrs. Ledbetter said. “And why not? The whole story is like the Titanic in miniature.”


“Well, it was bound to be a disaster, what with a little meth baby, a homosexual for a baby daddy, a mother in prison, a drug-addled boyfriend—that would be you, dear. Tragedy. Comedy. All at the same time. Audiences love that sort of thing. It’s like watching a train derail.”


“Oh, Wiley, don’t be modest. Everyone knows the story by now. And your family—heavens! They could have had their own sitcom, the way they carried on. All in the Family Part II.And if they had put a camera in front of that grandfather of yours, he would have been a superstar.”


Chapter 13