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

“So gross,” she said, making a face.


“You might enjoy living on a farm,” I said.


“Sort of. Mama liked to raise chickens and rabbits. And she always has a garden, of course. I spent most summers out in the sun weeding those gardens, me and my brother Billy. Mama tried to get me to help her with the canning, but I hated it.”


“That’s when you preserve fruits and vegetables. You know. Like jams and jellies and pickled okra. You put it up in jars.”


“It’s the most awful stuff you can imagine,” Jackson said.


“It’s good!” I countered. “And don’t you say a word about Mama’s fried okra.”


“I didn’t mind her fried okra, but some of that other stuff was out there.”


“Like what?” I asked, feigning outrage.


Amelia seemed to enjoy our pretend argument.


“All that fried chicken, to start with,” Jackson said. “There are other foods, you know.”


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