Books 1-8
Books 1-8 of the Impatiens series are available through
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Book 1: A Sea of White Impatiens
No one who grew up during the Depression deserved to suffer children who belonged both to the Baby Boom and X generations, but William and Joan Gallagher did, and did they suffer. How these two fine, moral people produced children who committed larceny, engaged in strange sex, used cremated remains as confetti and got haircuts at the Port Authority Bus Terminal is beyond explanation. Arrogant, tribal, bloodthirsty and sweet, the Gallagher children would only be on each other’s teams, and while seemingly a world apart from their parents, they shared more than heavy eyebrows over gorgeous eyes.
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Book 2: Superior Bodies
Christian Gallagher joins Superior Bodies, a shabby, poorly run gym whose only attractions are that it is owned and operated by gay lovers and is five blocks away from his house. Confident the club will fail without his investment and leadership, Christian buys into the operation and, with the help of Samia Siva, SB’s only female member and his new BFF, turns the place into a high-end gay gym and bathhouse. Not satisfied with rescuing the club, the formidable pair rescue its members from getting busted for turning tricks at Orlando’s Lake Underhill Park, working out with the gym’s idiot trainer-in-residence and, most importantly, making a bad gay porn remake of “Ice Castles,” though, really, can there be a good one? Enjoy Christian and Samia enjoying themselves as they develop their Superior Bodies.
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Book 3: Arrogant, Tribal, Bloodthirsty
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Book 4: Linden
In the fourth book in the series, Christian Gallagher rents an RV and road trips it up the East Coast visiting family and old friends on his way to Massachusetts to open Superior Bodies Boston. With him are Drucilla, Herod, The Whore of Babylon and Linden Midwinter, whom everyone thinks is his boyfriend. In ten days Christian learns more about Linden than in the two years he has known him. Never in a million years would he have thought his gun-toting, Larchmont Ladies Association-referencing employee enjoyed fantasy novels, had been a gymnast and loved to bowl, and never would he have thought Linden’s family story could rival his. Never, too, would Christian, the most promiscuous man in Orlando and maybe the world, have considered giving it all up for one man. Find out if he does, and if the man he does it for is Linden.
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Deirdre Gallagher Flynn’s second to last act on earth is arranging for the Stamford Midwinters to attend the wedding of her brother Christian and their long-neglected nephew Linden. Her last act is hooking her son Corey’s diaper bag to the fender of her van as a carjacker takes off in it with him. Shocked by his sister’s murder, but in denial of how affected he is by it, Christian distracts himself by replacing Superior Bodies’ cubicles with a kennel and opening Superior Mutts, a doggie rescue. The effort gives him comfort but, like his siblings, he won’t find peace until he, his brothers, sister Joan and Aunt Fiona find the man who murdered Deirdre and exact a superior revenge. Contact the author to purchase a copy of "A Superior Revenge." Book 7: Monteverde
Three weeks after Christian Gallagher begins teaching the rich brats at Montverde College, Hurricane Harriett descends on Central Florida, trapping his English class in the hallway of their building overnight. Linden and Aki are also trapped, in dog crates after a hillbilly family from whom they stole Knucklehead, an abused pitbull, hold them hostage at Superior Mutts during the storm. Christian spends the night entertaining his students with adventures that include a Superior Bodies haunted house that goes terribly wrong, the revenge the staff takes on a trio of high school gay bashers, and their teacher’s first and only adult movie appearance. Christian’s stories inspire his formerly bratty students to follow him back to the club in their BMWs and Peugeots to rescue the hostages, Knucklehead and, later, the rest of the hillbillies’ dogs.
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A series of tragedies throws Christian Gallagher into a depression so severe only Samia Siva can pull him out of it. The spoiled, globe-trotting ball-of-fire does so by returning to Orlando with a photo of Terrence Nguyen, a twenty-one year-old Asian man who looks so much like Christian he could be his son. Samia drags her troubled friend to Atlanta where Terrence works as a counselor at Haven House, a center for homeless youth. The brave, generous, silly and impulsive pair stay just long enough to determine if the young man is actually a Gallagher, and to affect the lives of the shelter’s residents and staff in ways both heroic and fatal. Christian and Samia spend six days shaking up Haven House and everyone associated with it, and in so doing challenge their ideas of rescue, family, justice and peace.
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Christian Gallagher and his English lit students would be the coolest eleven people at Montverde College even if they hadn’t rescued a dozen fighting dogs and turned their rehab into a reality show. The unusual and unusually loyal group spends the fall semester in the school’s amphitheater reading “The Odyssey,” “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Ethan Frome” and ignoring everyone else on the campus and planet. Everything changes in the spring when one of the students goes missing and is later discovered dead. The rest of the class is under suspicion of having killed their classmate, alone or as a Coven, leaving Christian, Linden and the Montverde Chief of Police to discover the murderer.
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