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

“Okay?” Amelia asked after a long silence.


“You can call me anything you want, honey. Just as long as you don’t call me late for dinner.”


I woke during the night to discover Tony was gone.


I immediately got out of bed, flipped on the light.


“What is it?” Jackson asked, turning over and looking at me.


I hurried from the room without waiting for an answer.


“Tony?” I called, my nerves getting the better of me. I knew he couldn’t hear me, but I couldn’t help myself. And it made me angry that he couldn’t hear me. Not angry at him. Angry at myself. Or angry at life, or circumstance, or fate. Angry that this form of communication was denied him, that he couldn’t hear people calling him, couldn’t hear that people cared about him, wanted to know he was all right.


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