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

“But Tony’s so nice,” Amelia said, wiping at her eyes. “It isn’t fair.”


“And she said the two of you were—”


“Don’t you worry about anything she said, honey,” Jackson replied. “Don’t you pay it any attention.”


“She’s an unhappy woman in a very unhappy situation, but we have each other, don’t we? We’re a family and we stick together, and it doesn’t matter what some woman like that says. You understand me? We’ve got each other, and we’ll take care of each other, and it don’t matter what anybody says about us.”


She looked at Tony, who was seated beside her, buckled into his seat and looking sleepy, and bit at her lip.


“I wanted you to see her,” Jackson said, “because I wanted you to understand that Tony needs us. He needs you. You’re his sister, and he needs your help. He needs all of us. We’re not going to let that woman or any other woman or any other person do anything to him ever again. Understand?”


Chapter 95