"I can see it with my eyes: my innocence - broken and dead and lost forever on a filthy street in Paris." Crepuscule is a poetic panorama of life among the Parisians and the expatriates in the French capital. An intense drama flowing with passion, Crepuscule is the epic story of romance, love, freedom, and survival - where the reader is taken on an expedition to the heights of hope and the depths of despair. "The miracle of Roman Payne's] tales is that, with all that he has inherited, he brings something beautiful and inimitable to the human legacy." - Author, Matthew L. Paris

Written entirely in Paris over a two year span during which its author lived every conceivable metropolitan passion and inspiration, Rooftop Soliloquy is a novel as vibrant and alive as the city where it was given seed and a place to grow. The first-person narrative follows the adventures and misadventures of a mysterious individual: an artist, flaneur, composer of operas, and incorrigible rake, who wanders the districts of Paris seducing girls, drinking wine, and looking for that new idea with which to complete his 'hero's tale.' Rooftop Soliloquy is remarkable for the ease and pleasurable...