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

“But I only brought a few clothes.”


“That’s why God invented credit cards, dear.”


“But I really don’t have the money to—”


“Oh, poo, pah!” Mrs. Ledbetter exclaimed. “We’ll do a bit of shopping, get you all fixed up. We’ll rack up a few credit cards, let the accountant sort it out, take it out of Jackson’s inheritance. Really, Martha, I insist. We’ll have ourselves a lovely time. When all these children aren’t hanging on our tits, we’ll go out and have ourselves some Bloody Marys. You’d like that. I know you would.”


“I’ve never had a Bloody Mary,” Mama said, blushing.


“Maybe we’ll chase some men too. At our age, anything can—and does—happen. I insist. Tell me you will.”


Chapter 114