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

“Oh, Mama,” I said, feeling appropriately wretched.


“Oh, just go!” she snapped. “I’m sure you don’t need us! I’m sure life in Boston will be so much better!”


“Yo, Uncle Wiley, you moving?” Eli said.


“What the hell do you need to move for?” Bill asked.


“Oh, honestly,” I exclaimed. “Y’all didn’t see this coming?”


“But I thought you were going to adopt,” Bill said.


“Yeah,” Mama added, wiping at her eyes.


“And you’re going to live up there?” Mama said. “We’re not going to get to see this child? That’s not right, Wiley. How’s he going to know who his family is?”


“Oh, you’ll visit! That’s nice, dear. Thank you. I feel somuch better! You’ll visit.”


Chapter 54