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

“Did you tell her about Tony?” I said.


“I really liked that little girl,” he admitted. “I like Tony too. Don’t get me wrong. But Amelia was such a little sweetie, and I felt such a connection to her.”


“So you don’t want to take Tony?”


“It’s not that—we can’t change our minds now.”


“First we can’t find any kid at all. Now we’ve got two and we have to choose between them?” I said, frustrated.


“Maybe we don’t have to choose,” Jackson said quietly.


“I thought you didn’t want another child.”


“I don’t. I mean…I don’t know what I mean. But I don’t want to say no to her, Wiley. Her mother just died. She must be out of her mind. And I would love to have a daughter.”


“You don’t think it’s too much?”


Chapter 58