Below is a description for Roman Payne’s 5th Novel, The Wanderess.  This book is under copyright © 2010, Roman Payne; in conjuction with ModeRoom Press (www.moderoom.com).  Reprinting this description requires permission fromwww.RomanPayne.com

A gothic mystery novel and story of erotic love and romance set against the backdrop of a timeless Mediterranean landscape, The Wanderess tells of the passion of Saul—the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest adventurer and lover”—for the beautiful Saskia, a mysterious young orphan girl whom he meets and vows to protect as his child.  When Saul’s pursuit of pleasure and fortune gets tangled with the quest of this “wanderess” for her long-lost friend and her own fortune, the two find themselves on a picaresque path that leads them through Spain, France, Italy and beyond; their adventures weaving them deeper and deeper into a web of jealous passion, intrigue, betrayal, and finally, murder.  The Wanderess is a love story, a novel of heroism and sexual romance portraying the lives of two unsettled vagabonds led by their own strange desires, mutual obsessions, and one single fortune.

The Wanderess is the fifth novel by Roman Payne, an author who pushes the boundaries of poetic language, imagination, sexual charge, and psychological mystery—his prose bearing always a timeless quality that transports the reader to far-away lands and times.