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

She sighed heavily again, seemed lost in thought.


“It was a confusing time,” she said at last, turning to look at Jackson. “Lotta stuff going on. You know.”


“I ain’t gonna spell it out for you, faggot. He did things. You get me?”


She lifted her upper lip on the right side, revealing a gap in her teeth.


“You see that tooth there?” she asked.


“The one that’s missing?” Jackson asked.


“Yeah,” she said. “The one that’s missing. Wanna know why it’s missing?”


“I tried to stop him. First time I saw him…you know. That’s what you get for interfering.”


“Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?”


“I’m just telling you how it was.”


“So this didn’t just happen once or twice.”


“He hung around a long time, that man. I don’t remember if he was there the night of the accident or not, but I ain’t seen him since. Don’t care to, if you take my meaning.”


Chapter 94