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

“We all know that’s not going to happen. And if behave means wiping up someone’s piss and dribble, I think I’ll pass.”


Something about this fella really grated my nerves. It was Mack, of course, who had gotten Jackson involved in drugs way back when they were dating. I had done drugs myself in my younger days. Unlike Jackson, I had not developed an addiction problem.


Mack seemed to think he was on a movie set, his each and every remark crafted to get a laugh or a snigger as though cameras were recording every moment of his life for posterity. He was also a horrible snob, and since he was good-looking and rich, he got away with it.


“So the little dingleberry likes dinosaurs?” Mack offered, as if to make conversation.


Chapter 25