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

“Why do you put up with me?” I asked.


“I don’t know,” he said. “Why do we put up with each other? That’s the question. I’d say it was because I love you, but sometimes I’m not sure.”


“Maybe I just want to inherit all your millions, since you’re a famous writer and all.”


In spite of myself, I had to chuckle. Like most writers, I was in no position to quit my day job. And it was Jackson Ledbetter who stood to inherit millions.


“I do kind of love you, you know,” he said, putting a hand on my cheek. “You’re growing on me. ‘My old man’—I like the sound of that. Maybe it’s a daddy fetish.”


“Well, you ain’t no spring chicken, Wiley Cantrell. Got yourself a little bit of a double chin going on there, don’t you?”


“I was looking at your backside the other day. I didn’t realize I was married to a sumo wrestler.”


Chapter 40