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Author: Maria-Claire Payne | Website

Maria-Claire Payne is the alter-ego of another Claire who holds multiple professional credentials related to the field of radiation oncology and a graduate degree in psychology. Both personalities share a love of taking classes in English literature and reading in many genres as well as getting inked and admiring biker dudes from afar. When no new reading material is readily at hand for whatever reason, her children have caught her reading cereal box-tops to fill the void. Maria-Claire lives in Southern Florida with her two rather conservative (how did that happen?) teenagers, the ghost of her soul-mate (her muse), and a crew of Himalayan and Persian cats affectionately referred to as the “Pussy Posse.” She loves to hear from her fans! 



Published Works & Book Reviews

Bending Tyme

Esme Tyme, CEO of her antiques business, eschews romance in favour of building her success and asserting her independence by day; by night, her need for control at odds with her predilection for spankings and riding crops, her philosophy towards love is pure twenty-first century cynic: she wants her men to hit it (literally) and quit it. Logan Davenport, hot – and hot-blooded – lord of the manor, channels his passion into breeding horses, resigning himself to the endless parade of insipid society women competing to attain his titles and his wealth, none caring to capture his heart. To discover the love Logan’s mother, blessed with the second sight, predicted would come to him “from afar,” the couple, with a bit of help from one George Gordon, the Lord Byron, must reconcile Esme’s twenty-first century sensibilities with Logan’s high-bred sense when Esme finds herself transported from contemporary Boston, Massachusetts to Regency England – and into the Lord Davenport’s bed.

Reviewer: Arianne
Review: Dec 16, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Historical Romance, Time-Travel, Regency
Esme Tyme is antique dealer. The builders of her new office have found an antique locket in the cornerstone of her new building. She has it authenticated by three different jewelers who say it is from the nineteen century. Esme has been having some erotic fantasies of the portrait of the man inside the locket. Her friend has named him "Lord of the Locket." After going to a costume party dressed as a nineteent

Unstrung

Cara Bredelow and her husband Travis work for a covert government agency called STAR Operations: Superpower Targeted Aeronautic Reconnaissance Operations. When Cara discovers errors in the data she inputs, and her husband and his research partner become troubled over their latest work on dimensional traveling, Cara begins to piece together a very dangerous puzzle.

To protect Cara, Travis and Sebastian initiate a risky plan to not only expose the traitor in their midst, but to also shut down international sales of national security secrets to the highest bidders. When Cara becomes a pawn in this dangerous game, will Travis choose his love for his woman or his love for the country he swore to protect – or can he save them both?

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