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

On the radio, the Florida Georgia Line was explaining about SunDaze. I bopped along like the country-music-loving swamp fiend that I was.


“Daddy?” Amelia said, appearing suddenly behind me.


There was a note of worry in her voice.


I turned off the stove, wiped my hands on my apron, and hurried upstairs.


“Oh, shit,” I said, feeling something in my stomach take a nosedive.


Thus far, we’d been lucky. No colds, no flus, no serious illnesses. With his compromised immune system and constant regimen of pills, there was no telling where such things could lead.


Now that I thought about it, Tony had been looking rather poorly these past couple of days.


“You’d better wake your papa up, sweetie. And please hurry.”85: What’s Wrong?


“It’s Tony, Mama,” I said, feeling my strength giving out.


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