Payne: 828 books

Intrigue . . . . Murder . . . . Betrayal A Pulitzer Prize is the only major award Jonathon Stone has never won. And now that he’s left investigative journalism to write nice little articles for magazines, it seems he never will. But the embers still smolder, and when Leo Zimmer crashes head...

Corey has never had much luck with relationships, but it still comes as a surprise that his boyfriend would cheat on him after they'd been living together for over a year.Like karma is trying to punish him, he meets at work a man he'd known and sort of dated back in college, until he cheated on him.

One of the most devastating weapons of the Middle Ages, the crossbow probably originated in the Western Roman Empire early in the fourth century, its design perhaps suggested by the balista, an ancient form of catapult. This book is the only work ever devoted exclusively to this widely used bowstring...

A Stroll at Midnight tells a poetic story about a hopeless romantic’s transition from heartbreak to finding true love. This collection of love poems that tells a deep tale of love, betrayal, moving on, confusion, lust, exhilarating romance  and finding true love will evoke an emotional yet pleasurable...

The biblical marriage pact has remained consistent in its interpretation since the beginning of mankind. That is to say "what therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Mark 10-9. The separation component has often become commonplace, human nature being what it is. Lust,...

Cancer treatment is at hand. A San Francisco lawyer owns a falcon, a wealthy womanizer from Chicago owns a python and a gay man from Paris owns a bulldog. All three are in the terminal stage of melanoma and are warehoused waiting to die. But, their pets are in rare form, keeping them alive. They learn...

Fictional account of a couple managing an apartment building in downtown San Francisco and the many challenges presented by both the owner of the complex and the interesting residents. Each chapter presents a descriptive scenario and sometimes strange interchange between the main characters in the book. Did the Zodiac killer of the late 60's really live here?

The primary setting of this book focuses on an independently owned private investigation business in Chicago. Rod meets up with an old Army buddy on a cruise out of Galveston, Texas and also an interesting school teacher. Bradley Simmons operates the agency. Rod conducts some initial surveillance...

Stage Three: Rod Richards Returns contains three books in the my fictional Three and Out Trilogy. The first book is The Saga of A San Francisco Apartment Manager which embodies humor on a true-life, fiction platform. The book highlights the interpersonal relationships of the diverse and interesting...

Jamie Richards is reunited with his old friend, Denis Sweeny, former Navy SEAL and chief protagonist. Jamie has lived a terrible life of risk-taking, sinfulness, and disregard for acceptable human behavior. Nothing could ever stop him. But in the end, justice was served. ISIS is everywhere, spreading...

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Robert Payne, is the extraordinary story of the Roman Empire - from its birth to the rise of the Caesars through the era of excess and its final collapse.

Liking, sharing, friending, going viral: what would it mean to recognize these current modes of media interaction as promiscuous? In a contemporary network culture characterized by a proliferation of new forms of intimate mediated sociality, this book argues that promiscuity is a new standard of user...

Originally published in 1951, this is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished writer whose own background makes him particularly qualified to discuss some of the more controversial aspects of General Marshall’s work since World War...

Planted Flowers is a new Christian Suspense series written by Anna K Payne.  These six stories follow women who hope to draw closer to God. The trials and dangers they face cement their bonds to each other, restore their relationship with God, and open their hearts to the men in their lives. For...