Payne: 828 books

Six months after being discharged from The Clever-field Mental Health Clinic and supposedly on the mend, Sydney Henderson finds herself on the brink of self-destruct. Unable to escape the tragic events of her past she struggles to move forward amidst her multiple personalities that corrupt her mind,...

Special Norris dropped out of school and ran away from home at 15. She was born and raised in Hackney, so she thought she'd seen and knew everything about the piss stained pavements and gutter stenched streets she was proud to call home, but as it turned out she didn't know shit.     A witness...

“Would I rather be happy than wealthy, evidently not…” – Tameeka Davis   Tameeka and Sabrina grew up in the same borough but they both lived totally different lives. Tameeka married Lucky Davis, a lucrative drug-dealer from the hood while Sabrina hooked up with the underdog who...

Dante Tieri, the billionaire benefactor of Chicago’s most exciting bash for military personnel, is also one of the city’s most sinful single men. Italian, driven, and unapologetically rich, Dante is in full control of his world—until his world is turned on its axis in the middle of his own party. Lieutenant...

When Mark Moore arrives in Nassau to conduct a corporate training meeting, all he’s expecting is an all-expenses-paid week in an island paradise. The former senator has freed up his schedule for more time with his pop-star daughter, Dasha, and for projects just like this. What Mark doesn’t...

Twenty stories of the best erotic science fiction and fantasy published by Circlet Press, collected together.  Funded through a Kickstarter campaign run in 2017-- the year of Circlet's 25th anniversary-- Superlative Speculative Erotica features stories voted on by the Kickstarter and Patreon...

The land of Deira burns. Two decades of war have laid waste to this once-green paradise . . . but even more destructive than rampaging armies is the wrath of the dragon—an uncontrollable living weapon unleashed by the invaders. Some brave rebels struggle against impossible odds. Others...

The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...

Jason MacDonald disappeared after leaving on a business trip. The police couldn't find him. Now, Malcolm MacDonald has hired Blake Tanner to find out what happened to his son. Can Tanner reheat the cold case?

There was once [at Baghdad], in the Khalifate of Haroun er Reshid, a man, a merchant, who had a son by name Aboulhusn el Khelia.[FN#2] The merchant died and left his son great store of wealth, which he divided into two parts, one of which he laid up and spent of the Other half; and he fell to companying...

Life in Heron Creek is looking up for Graciela Harper, despite the fact that every ghost within a fifty mile radius seems intent on sticking to her like glue - and not the weak Elmer's kind, either. But with a sexy boyfriend, her old friends back in her life, and a great job prospect at one of the...

With Mayor Beau accused of abuse of power and facing federal indictment, a relentless curse after her unborn nephew, and a moody, uncommunicative spirit in her room, reluctant ghost-helper Graciela Harper figures she’s got enough on her plate. The universe, as usual, figures otherwise.  On...

**This is an "in-between" novella and not a full length novel**  Graciela is hoping that, despite the reappearance of her father—who’s supposed to be dead—her life in Heron Creek might be about the calm down.  Her boyfriend’s mother has other ideas, ones that include...

Graciela Harper would like nothing better than to nurse her broken heart and hide from the world, but some problems get bigger the longer they’re left to sit. She’s about to stand trial for her father’s murder, and whoever killed him did a thorough job of setting her up. And, to make matters...