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

“I lost my husband this year,” she said in a frank tone. “I’m not going to lose my only grandson too. There are limits, you know.”


“Why don’t you go home and get some rest?” she suggested.


“Then why don’t you go sit with him? He needs you, Wiley.”


“He needs to get his butt out of that bed.”


“That too. But he needs his daddy right now. He needs to be reminded that he has something to fight for.”


“I’m not going to sit by his bed and watch another child of mine die,” I blurted out.


“Yes, you can. If there’s anyone in this world who can do it, it’s you, Wiley. And you know it. So stop being a poopy pants.”


“You don’t know that’s going to happen.”


Chapter 98