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 know, but I can’t just pull up stakes and leave…”


“But you can,” Jackson said very gently. “And I think you should. I think you need to, Wiley. I think you need to be in an atmosphere where people support you and care about you and they’re not picking away at you constantly with all that religious bullcrap. There’s a room upstairs that I want you to see. It would be a perfect writing room for you. We’ll put your computer and your books in there, and you’ve got a nice view, and you can write to your heart’s content. I think we need to do this, Wiley. Not just for me but for both of us. There’s more to the world than Tupelo, Mississippi.”


“But what about bills? What about my car? I still haven’t paid it off.”


“We’re in very good financial shape. You know that. We’ve got enough in savings that we could get by for a year if we had to, and probably a lot longer.”


Chapter 33