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

“I’m not being smart,” Amelia said, pouting now. “Okay. I was. A little. I just don’t see why I have to go.”


“We want you to go,” Jackson said. “We’re a family, honey. We have to support each other. It’s not always fun, but that’s how it works.”


“He’s picking his nose, by the way.”


I glanced in the backseat. Sure enough, Tony had his index finger jammed in his right nostril. He was staring out the window, oblivious to us.


“You think it’s funny?” Amelia asked.


“Boys!” Amelia exclaimed. “Bad enough I have two daddies, but I also have a booger butt brother who picks his nose! I hope he doesn’t plan on wiping his boogers on me.”


“Try to look on the bright side,” I suggested.


“And what would that be?” she demanded.


“For example,” I said, “if you fart, you don’t have to worry because he’s never going to hear it. So that’s one good thing, right?”


In the rearview mirror, I saw her roll her eyes.


Chapter 92