Taken By The Wind

by Charlotte Boyett-Compo

An Obsession's Love: She was a challenge; a desire he could not resist. For the want and need of her, he would let nothing stand in the way.He would track her across four states, his obsession a blood-red promise she'd be his and no other's.

Genres: Contemporary, Suspense

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

About the author

She won Inscription Magazine's 2000 Engraver Award for Favorite E-Author and The Writecharm's Simply Charming Award for promoting e-books and their authors worldwide. Her sci-fi/futuristic novel, BLOODWIND, stayed on Dark Star Publications bestseller list for over 18 months and has now been released in paperback. It was named as one of the Best Books of 1999 at eBook Connections as was her dark historical, IN THE WIND'S EYE. Her psychological thriller, IN THE HEART OF THE WIND, was nominated for a 2000 R.I.O Award and has been named as one of the Best Books of 2000 at Inscriptions and was awarded a Reviewer's Choice Award at Scribe's World. It also won the 2004 Bloody Dagger Award for mystery/thrillers. BLACKWIND won the SF/Fantasy Top Choice at Preditors and Editors for 2002. IN THE HEART OF THE WIND won the 2002 Bloody Dagger Award in mystery/thriller and NIGHTWIND won the 2002 Bloody Dagger Award for horror. Both WINDREAPER and BLACKWIND won Awards for Excellence for 2002 from WordWeaving. BLACKWIND won the #2 Top Choice from readers at Amber Quill Press for 2003. BLOODWIND was one of the Top Five Bestsellers for 2003 at Hard Shell Word Factory and has been consistently in the top 25 of Fictionwise's list of dark fantasy bestselling novels along with DARKWIND and NIGHTWIND. PRINCE OF THE WIND was honored with the 2003 CAPA (cupid and Psyche Award) for Best Paranormal Romance. Both BLACKWIND AND BLOODWIND were in the Top Five Dark Fantasy Bestsellers for 2003 at Fictionwise. DARKWIND was honored with a Top Ten in SF/Fantasy at Preditors and Editors for 2003 and in 2004 won The Fallen Angel Reviews coveted Recommended Read. In 2004, her website was awarded An Author's Site of Excellence by Preditors & Editors. In 2005, her erotica novel, DESIRE'S SIROCCO, was chosen as the Best eBook Romance of 2004 by The Historical Romance Club. In 2005, her dark fantasy PRISONERS OF THE WIND was awarded the Just Erotic Romance Reviews Gold Star Award. It also won the Blue Ribbon Award from Romance Junkies. Also in 2005, the anthology FATED MATES 1, was nominated for Reviewer's Choice for best paranormal erotic romance from Romantic Times Booklovers Magazine. In 2006, three of her works were nominated for RIO (Reviewers International Organization): BLOODWIND (which was also award the League of Amazing Writer's Uber Award), DARKWIND, and from the DREAMS OF THE OASIS IV anthology, the short story, The Sting of the Wind. Also nominated for the prestigious Ecataromance Reviewers Choice awards in 2006 were: WINDWEEPER, WINDHEALER, SHADOWLORD, DESERT WIND, PHANTOM OF THE WIND, ARDOR'S LEVECHE, and SHADES OF THE WIND. PHANTOM OF THE WIND was awarded the first annual FANTASM AWARD for Best Futuristic Romance in 2006. She has won several more awards in 2007 and 2008.

Reviews

[Fre06 Begum · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this years ago but need to re read this as the biggest twist to the book apparently I missed! Duh

[Julz · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 rounded up

Um? Not sure if I liked this all that much or not. I just love me some evil guy doing evil things and the heroine being at his mercy. So, yeah, we got some of that here. However, the story was kind of transparent, a little too farfetched and full of holes, and somewhat anticlimatic...though it was pretty much what I thought it would be, even if I was hoping to be surprised. I think I was just disappointed that it was so easy to guess what was going on and let down that the end was so quickly resolved. But if you're in the mood to read about a serial killer chasing a heroine across the country but you don't want to commit yourself to long story, then here you go.

[Summer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A tense thriller which I read in one sitting. It grips you from the start and the build up continues till the end. The ending is Creepy and revealing!

[Cat The Curious · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought the writing was childish actually. The concept was good and the twist was nice but this is several I have tried by this author and although she has nice covers and ideas, she has terrible execution. Everything I have read by her is so simplisitc and junior high like. Outlandishly silly. There's much better out there.

[HJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

As always, Charlotte Boyette-Compo writes a very compelling, tense tale. This is no exception. Despite the fact that the book had already been 'spoiled' for me, I still couldn't put it down or wait to get to the end. I particularly love how, as a reader, I kept trying to figure 'it' out, with surprising difficulty. Great story.

[Cyndi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow, a creepy but riveting read. You will think you know how it will end, but you wont :-)

[Della Amor · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was honestly expecting more from this book but since it was a fast read and managed to hold my interest to the very end I'm giving it 3 stars. The twist was pretty predictable and the epilogue was so anticlimactic I had to drop one star from the original 4. We have a serial killer who's obsessed with a witness that piqued his interest and he proceeds to follow her all across the country leaving a trail of bodies and...that's all folks.
To my relief, apart from two (?) quick descriptions of the murders, we're not subject to the details of killings which I don't think I could've handled well.

[Maya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Someone needs to explain the ending here? plus, was Ky also a killer?

[CoffeeTimeRomance andMore · Rating 4 out of 5]

This gripping thriller has more turns than a chain-link fence. Some of them are obvious. Though the psychological profile of the killer is well-drawn and executed, the heroine’s behaviors are contradictory to good sense. Her back story has been omitted, so she has no reason for acting so illogically. At first, the reader might want to yell: “Look out!” After a while we just wish she’d come out of her denial daze, forget sex and wise up.

Maggie
Reviewer for Coffee Time Romance and More

https://www.coffeetimeromance.com/Boo...

[Cynjin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creep-tastic! Why was I rooting for the serial killer? And who did she really end up with? :)

[Georgiana]

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