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

Boy, I remembered. How could I ever forget? Something in my belly tightened into an uncomfortable knot.


“Come along, Congressman,” Mrs. Ledbetter said, leading the way into the house.


“Eunice, this is very kind of you,” Fordheim said.


“Nonsense!” she exclaimed. “If we’re going to get snowed in, I can’t think of a finer man to be snowed in with. We can discuss your opposition to legalizing marijuana. I really do think you should change your mind on that particular matter. Not that I’ve ever smoked the stuff, but I’d much rather see our young people getting stoned and giggling at cartoons than see them drunk and killing people behind the wheel. Don’t you agree? And if only for its medicinal value—I would have thought you’d seen that straight off, Congressman. I’d like to think that we’re a progressive people in this part of the world.”


Chapter 23