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

“Like you have some say in the matter,” she retorted. “You act like if you just squeeze your butt cheeks together hard enough, the poor thing will live another day.”


“By the way,” I said, looking across the table at Mama, “I would like to know who sicced a Catholic priest on me at two in the frickin’ morning. Bastard’s lucky I didn’t castrate him and send him back to the rectory with his balls in a sack.”


“He marched into Tony’s room and started in on me. Don’t tell me you didn’t call him.”


“Wiley, I don’t even know where the church is here. How am I going to call someone?”


“Well, that someone wasn’t me. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, but you’re in a mood!”


Chapter 108