Homo Novus Mysteries & Detective Stories New York Times bestselling author

New York Times bestselling author of The Cactus

you are invited to take part in this love story - not as some distant observer

The core of it rings so true for me

turning their bodies strange and foreign

This is Carson's novelistic account (reminiscent of "Permanent Midnight") of the true story of the late bisexual bodybuilder's childhood abuse

Homo Novus Mysteries & Detective Stories New York Times bestselling authorPiety, compassion, lust, love Feelings all the more potent when you are a Catholic priest confined to your hospital bed by an AIDS diagnosis, being comforted by the seminarian you sexually abused as an adolescent. It's Holy Week 1987. The priest is Fr. Linus Fitzgerald, and the young seminarian is Orlando Rosario. Both are shocked and shaken as they reflect on their desires and dreams, secrets and sins, hopes and faith, and the paths that brought them