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

Perhaps in giving that to a child like Tony, I might receive a little in return. And perhaps that little bit was what my heart needed. And perhaps, in helping Tony, a little bit of Noah would live on.


I could certainly live with that.18: I Let It Slip


“There you are,” Jackson said, coming into the room.


I was standing in the window, looking at the snow.


“I sort of let it slip that we’d be in town. I didn’t think he’d come over unannounced.”


“You told your old boyfriend we were going to be in town? Did you tell him we were doing a visitation with a child that we might possibly want to adopt?”


“I just wanted to see some of my old friends, Wiley.”


Chapter 27