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 what do you think I did?” she asked, as if this were a fun game.


“Whatever you did, he wakes up screaming during the night. I’ve dealt with a lot of traumatized kids over the years, and it doesn’t take a genius to put two and two together. You know, I’m wondering how he got HIV, since he wasn’t born with it, and since you’re apparently HIV negative. I wonder how that happened.”


“Well, I didn’t know he was sick, so don’t start in on me with that again. If I’d have known he was sick, I would have taken him to the doctor.”


“HIV is transmitted through bodily fluids.”


“Well, you either left used needles lying around the house or one of your friends helped himself to the family jewels, so to speak.”


“It was one or the other,” Jackson said.


“Do I look like somebody who shoots up?” she asked.


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