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

“Oh, sweetie, don’t call me Mrs. Cantrell. Sounds so stuffy.”


“Oh, heavens no! I’m your memaw. You know what a memaw is, child?”


“That’s your grandmother, sweetie. That’s what we call it, anyway. All my grandkids call me Memaw, and you should too. Now, if my husband was still alive, you’d call him your papaw, but he done passed on. And of course, your other papaw done passed on too. Was so sorry to hear about that, Miss Eunice. So very sorry.”


“The card you sent was lovely,” Mrs. Ledbetter said.


“I can’t believe you came all this way,” I said to Mama.


“The way you were carrying on, I knew I had to do something,” Mama replied.


“Why was Daddy carrying on?” Amelia asked, looking at Jackson.


“It’s a long story, honey,” Jackson said.


“That’s what you say when you don’t want to tell me the truth about something,” she countered.


“Your daddy’s a little worried. That’s all.”


Chapter 100