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

“And I’ll take care of your mother when she arrives,” Mrs. Ledbetter said. “You’re not to worry on that account, Wiley.”


“She booked a flight and everything?” I said, incredulous.


“She’s a mother, isn’t she?” Mrs. L. replied.88: A Little Rest


Jackson brought a cot to the room, and I lay down, thinking I would just rest a little, would just close my eyes for a few moments—I hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours. I glanced up at Tony’s bed occasionally, as if to reassure myself that it was still there, that he was still sleeping in it, that everything was okay, the heart bleep machine was still bleeping, no alarms were going off.


Chapter 99