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

“Her mama pitched a fit about that song,” Mama said. “Why does she have to put something like that on there? Why, Wiley? What the neighbors are going to think, I’m sure I don’t know. And I don’t dare tell Father Ginderbach about it. I just hope and pray he doesn’t buy that CD and listen to it. I would be so embarrassed.”


“You think it’s funny?” she demanded.


“Mama, it isfunny. It’s just a song. And it’s a country song, and they’re all about sex. Or trucks. Or hound dogs. Or drinking. I hope she’s a great big success. Is she coming for the July the Fourth party?”


“Of course she is. She hasn’t forgotten us. Not like some people I know.”


“You’d never know it by the number of phone calls I get from you. And I’m retired now, so I have lots of time on my hands, but does my phone ever ring? You’re too busy, and Billy’s going through a phase.”


Chapter 96