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

“You were Clara Foster’s only real choice,” Ruby said to me. “She met with several other couples, but she liked you and Jackson the most. That’s what she always said.”


“That’s very flattering,” I said.


“She wasn’t just thinking about money,” Ruby added. “She wanted Amelia to be with a couple that would really love her, really take to her, and give her a happy life. Money helps, of course, but it’s not everything, and she didn’t care whether they were rich or poor. I think she saw something in you and your partner that she didn’t see in other couples.”


“Oh, she loved your sense of humor!”


“If you want the truth, I think she picked you precisely because you’re gay. She was sexually abused as a child, and…well, I guess she thought Amelia was safest with a couple of gay men.”


“But sexual abuse isn’t about sex,” I pointed out.


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