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’ve been thinking about moving back to Boston,” he admitted.


“You’ve never said anything about moving,” I said.


“I haven’t said anything because I know it would piss you off.”


“There is that. How seriously are you thinking about this?”


I blew out a breath of exasperated air.


“Wow,” I said, putting my hands on the windowsill.


“We could make a life here,” he said. “And sure, my family is crazy, but at least they don’t hate my guts because I’m gay, and they won’t be sneering down their noses at us all the time. And anyway, I miss Boston. This is my home, Wiley. This will always be my home. I want to join the real world again. Mississippi is a hoot, but let’s face it, nobody in their right mind wants to live in a place like that.”


“But you are, in a way. What does any of this have to do with Mack?”


Chapter 28