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

Jackson wrapped Tony in a large bath towel. He carried him into the room and sat him down on the bed, helped him dress in his too-big pajamas.


Where…my book?Tony asked, looking around rather frantically.


I had placed it on top of a dresser. I picked it up, showed it to him. He took it from my hands, hugged it to his chest as he crawled into bed.


In your book,I said, nodding at his book.


He opened the book in a fussy manner, flipping through the pages until he came across the strip of photos we’d taken at the mall. He looked at those photos and smiled.


Jackson sat on one side of the bed while I sat on the other.


Finally he looked up from the photos, glancing at each of us.


If you need something, you come tell us. We’re just right through that door. Okay?


Chapter 31