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

Ledbetter ain’t the crying type. I had reduced him to tears once or twice, but no more than that.


“What the fuck?” I said, unsteady on my feet.


“You’ve got to stop this, Wiley,” he said miserably. “You’re ruining my life! You’re throwing away everything we’ve worked for! You’ve got to get over this and move on—it’s been six fucking years! I lost him too, you know, and there isn’t a single day that goes by that I don’t think about him, but we’ve got to move on. And I’m here too, you know. Don’t you ever think about that? I’mhere. I’myour family. And I’m tired of living in the shadow of our dead son. And I’m tired of you and tired of your fucking nonsense. It’s been six years. Six fucking years! Enough is enough!”


Chapter 50