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

“How’s it feel to lose to a seven-year-old?” Jackson asked with a smile.


“Why don’t you try it and find out?”


Can I play?Jackson signed to Tony, who nodded happily, as if to say it would make no difference.


“Look at him,” Jackson said. “He’s pretty cocky for a seven-year-old.”


“He’s probably going to whip your ass.”


Jackson always took his games seriously, as if the fate of the known universe rested on whether he won or not. He used to go on and on with Noah, both of them driving me nuts with their constant competitiveness.


It took Tony about five minutes to wind up with four of his pieces kinged while Jackson had none.


“Dammit!” Jackson cursed under his breath.


“Or you’re just a loser,” I suggested.


“You will be, you keep screwing up the way you are.”


Chapter 30