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

“Doing her homework. You know, I have to say, Noah never did his homework, not unless you begged and begged and begged.”


“I don’t even have to remind Amelia,” he added. “I don’t think she would be caught dead with a homework assignment not done. She’s great that way.”


“Of course I am,” she said, appearing suddenly in the doorway. “Mr. Jack? I need some more notebook paper.”


“I’ll have to dig in the boxes downstairs.”


“Are you guys evergoing to put your stuff away?” she wanted to know.


“You’ve got boxes full of crap all over this place. And Mr. Jack?”


“Why don’t we all go have a snack?” he said. “I think we have some hot chocolate. Chocolate’s okay, right? Doesn’t have a face and all of that?”


“Very funny,” she said. “But I was thinking about a bowl of cereal. Mama always let me have a bowl of cereal at night if I got hungry.”


Chapter 89