C C Payne: 28 books

“This may capture the experience of children of divorce better than any book out there and deserves readership beyond a middle-grade audience. A winner!”–San Francisco City Book Review C. C. Payne intertwines heartache with humor and hope in a novel about navigating divorce and blended...

Attitude within the Workplace: An Eight-Step Healing Process presents a technique designed to help others to improve their attitude based on the life experiences of author C. Payne. She reveals how she was finally able to take responsibility for her own negative attitude problem. By admitting that...

How can such a horrendous act of violence take place in a mental health hospital where all patients are closely monitored. Four patients and two nurses are tagged as persons of interest in the murder. The CIA and FBI are investigating because of a possible al-Oaeda cell operating in the hospital or...

Ignite Me (Woven Series: Book One)Lennon Walsh has finally rebuilt the life she has convinced herself she wants. She has her own home, a career she loves and great friends. The last thing she needs is for the ever present ghost from her past to reappear in all his rock star glory and blow it all...

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.

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...

Recommended 17+Embrace Me can be read as a standalone but is recommended to be read following Ignite Me (Woven Series: Book One)Freya Anson's hand has been hovering over her self destruct button for as long as she can remember. With a loneliness she swore she would never feel again now plaguing...

Recommended 17+ due to mature content.When Hannah Baker finds her life turned upside down the only people she can turn to are the ones she walked away from. With her fingers crossed she takes a chance and finds herself back inside their world, only now it looks different and there are unmistakable...

Recommended 17+ due to mature content Arielle Sterling desperately wants a second chance; the only problem is she has no idea how to get it. When she decides to return to her former life she knows she will have to face the mistakes from her past, she can only hope that the person she most needs...