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The Wanderess

A gothic mystery novel and story of passion and romance set against the backdrop of a timeless Mediterranean landscape, The Wanderess tells of the notorious adventurer Saul and his passion for the beautiful Saskia, a mysterious young orphan girl whom he m

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“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”

— Roman Payne, amazon.com

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”

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Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman

“Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both "at one with" and "separate from" the outside world. These discoveries are as fundamental to the soul as "learning to survi…”

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Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman

“To wander is to be alive.”

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Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”

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Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman

“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.”

— Roman Payne, amazon.com

Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”

— Roman Payne, amazon.com

Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”

— Roman Payne, amazon.com

Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman

“She belonged to no man and to no city.”

— Roman Payne, amazon.com

Tagged: Women, Wandress, Wanderer, Free Spirit, Being a woman

“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”

— Roman Payne, amazon.com

“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.”

— Roman Payne

Tagged: Adventure, travel, wander, Wealth, Poverty