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

“She’s got a hell of a set of lungs,” Billy allowed.


“Can we sit up front?” Amelia asked.


“You can go backstage, darling,” Billy said. “She’s your cousin.”


“So awesome,” Amelia said, her face glowing.


“We’re not going to be able to live with Mary now,” Mama said, shaking her head. “She was already impossible. Now it’s going to be worse.”


“You should see the kind of money they’re offering her,” Billy said. “I’d get up on that stage too, but I can’t hold a tune worth a darn.”


“She does some kind of rap on that ‘Listen to the Music’ song,” Shelly said. “I said if that’s country music, I’ll eat my foot.”


“They’re all doing it now,” Billy said. “She calls it sampling.”


“Whatever she calls it, it ain’t country,” Shelly argued.


“Well, she’s going to make a lot of money, and that’s the important thing,” Billy replied. “Let’s get this show on the road, folks. We should head downstairs to the baggage claim.”


Chapter 118