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

I hadn’t realized what a big deal Mary was. Folks had always talked about Elvis coming out of Tupelo, or Tammy Wynette coming out of Tremont, but now they were talking about Mary Cantrell coming out of New Albany. It was hard for me to take such talk seriously. It was Marythey were talking about, after all, my favorite niece (well, my only niece), a girl I’d known since the day she was born. It was hard to believe Mary was well and truly on her way to becoming a star.


When her band mounted the stage and began the opening riff to “Listen to the Music”after a long-winded introduction by the mayor, there was so much electricity in the air you could have straightened your hair with it.


“Oh my God!” Amelia squealed, looking up to me and beaming.


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