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

“What, Ledbetter?” I asked quietly, sensing his mood.


“Do you have to tell people everything?” he whispered.


“I’m one of those go tell it on the mountain kind of guys. You know that. Shout it from the rooftops. Who the hell cares?”


“I just don’t like you sharing our business with anyone and everyone.”


“I will try to be more secretive, if that helps. Or we could go back in the closet.”


“Don’t you have any filter at all?”


“Lord, do I ever. I’m just not sure why you care so much what people think.”


“I don’t like people laughing at me.”


“Do you see anybody laughing at you?”


“You just have this habit of attracting everyone’s attention. I don’t know what it is with you, but every time I turn around, there you are, running your mouth. I hope you’re not planning on doing that in Boston.”


“So I should be more snobby. Like your parents, in other words?”


Chapter 42