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Walk Upon the Wind
Sun, sea - and seduction
Emily was no longer innocent or vulnerable enough to fall for a ruthless man like Alexi Karivalis. In the five years since their love affair ended, she had channeled her emotions into building a career-her work had become her only love. But under the scorching sun on a tiny Greek island, Alexi's reappearance in her life raised alarming suspicions - that the man she would once have gladly died for was now swindling her grandfather AND skillfully working his way back into her heart.
Emily was no longer innocent or vulnerable enough to fall for a ruthless man like Alexi Karivalis. In the five years since their love affair ended, she had channeled her emotions into building a career-her work had become her only love. But under the scorching sun on a tiny Greek island, Alexi's reappearance in her life raised alarming suspicions - that the man she would once have gladly died for was now swindling her grandfather AND skillfully working his way back into her heart.
189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 1992
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Patricia Wilson
121 books181 followersPatricia Wilson (1929 – 2010) was a best-selling writer of 53 romance novels for the Mills & Boon publisher from 1986 to 2004. She placed her novels primarily in England, Spain or France.
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February 27, 2018
Re Walk Upon the Wind - Patricia Wilson gives us an uber cuddlesome artist h who simply must go to Greece to find out who or what is threatening her Gramps - he is sounding funny on the phone and he is also getting much older and our h better get to detecting, so things can get sorted.
The h also has an art gallery and a very good friend male gallery co-owner who agrees to go to Greece with her. So we all get to Greece and things are even worse than the h thought, it looks like Gramps IS being taken advantage of - by none other than the very man who seduced, pumped and dumped our unicorn groomer h five years earlier.
And he has another woman living with him in what used to be Gramp's house, until the bossy bully H conscripted it and has restored it and is probably sullying it with his really mean spidercow OW.
The h must take steps! She has to find a way to rid Gramps of this evil pestilence. But Gramps thinks the H is the best thing since sliced bread AND butter with cherry jam and the h just can't bring herself to disillusion him.
So the h soon finds herself engaged to the H, in that usual PW bully H just announces the engagement cause he is tired of chasing the h kinda way. The h, who loves the H, but was really hurt by the abandonment before, is determined to find a way to escape.
So we get H organized archaeological dives with Gramps, making the H jealous with an OM or two and the H doing his OW jealousy bit in turn and picnics with lurve mojo on the beach. Then Gramps has a heart problem and we all have to go back to England for surgery.
Gramps is fine, but the H, who has announced the engagement to everyone and their uncle and their uncle's brother too, disappears again for over a month. So the h has to tell her mother that the wedding is off and the h's mother DOES NOT LIKE THAT - cause she is kinda mean and horrible- and the h has lost her artistic mojo too. So she can't even paint, she can only have mopey moments.
It was fortunate the h had a backlog of work to show, cause she and her artist gallery partner put up a showing. Then some short, round little man comes along and buys all of the h's paintings and the h is worried she will never be able to paint again.
The H chooses to make his reappearance at this point , (it was a good thing too, there are only a few pages left in the book,) he had to go sort the OW out. It seems the OW is married to his cousin but she is infertile and the cousin is mean to her about it. So the OW and her husband fight and the OW runs to the H for support, cause he is her anchor and the head of the family.
But now she has dumped the husband for good and the H had to go find a cozy lurve nest for his mistress, er help her resolve the situation. The H never could explain this before, cause the h was just a body he bedded, but with the wedding coming up and all, now the h is family.
Also the H had to pump and dump the h five years earlier because she won an art competition scholarship andhe needed more time to soothe his infertile mistress, er, the h needed time to follow her own dreams and talents - which doesn't matter any more either cause the H is having his little round guy buy up all the h's pictures.
But all this is forgotten now, cause the H had to bail out Gramps from an unscrupulous embezzling accountant and give him money to live and the least the old codger can do is pimp the h out to repay the debt, encourage the h to love the H and marry him cause he needs a broodmare,er, loves the h and has for forever and the h is so besotted and befuddled she agrees for the PW semi matte HEA.
This one had it's cute moments, but really PW should give up the Greek H's at this point. Mainly cause aside from her first HP, when she has Greek H's she gives them sherbet popsicle h's who puddle at the slightest rise in temperature and melt at one glance from the H's intense eyes.
So the H's come across as uber bullies bulldozing a helpless baby bunny h - it makes you want to scoop the h into your pocket and outrun the forest fire.
Unfortunately, PW's Mark II Greek H's also have NO charm. They may or may not be unrequitedly carrying love smouldering embers for the h for years.
Most of the fun of a PW H is that he is utterly, hopelessly and quite besottedly in love with the h and she just won't see it, that is not the case here.
However the h is adorable and cuddlesome and I liked her even tho she was utterly ineffective at anything other than pretty pictures. So read this one if you like the fluffy bunny PW h and want a pretty standard HP day at the office.
The h also has an art gallery and a very good friend male gallery co-owner who agrees to go to Greece with her. So we all get to Greece and things are even worse than the h thought, it looks like Gramps IS being taken advantage of - by none other than the very man who seduced, pumped and dumped our unicorn groomer h five years earlier.
And he has another woman living with him in what used to be Gramp's house, until the bossy bully H conscripted it and has restored it and is probably sullying it with his really mean spidercow OW.
The h must take steps! She has to find a way to rid Gramps of this evil pestilence. But Gramps thinks the H is the best thing since sliced bread AND butter with cherry jam and the h just can't bring herself to disillusion him.
So the h soon finds herself engaged to the H, in that usual PW bully H just announces the engagement cause he is tired of chasing the h kinda way. The h, who loves the H, but was really hurt by the abandonment before, is determined to find a way to escape.
So we get H organized archaeological dives with Gramps, making the H jealous with an OM or two and the H doing his OW jealousy bit in turn and picnics with lurve mojo on the beach. Then Gramps has a heart problem and we all have to go back to England for surgery.
Gramps is fine, but the H, who has announced the engagement to everyone and their uncle and their uncle's brother too, disappears again for over a month. So the h has to tell her mother that the wedding is off and the h's mother DOES NOT LIKE THAT - cause she is kinda mean and horrible- and the h has lost her artistic mojo too. So she can't even paint, she can only have mopey moments.
It was fortunate the h had a backlog of work to show, cause she and her artist gallery partner put up a showing. Then some short, round little man comes along and buys all of the h's paintings and the h is worried she will never be able to paint again.
The H chooses to make his reappearance at this point , (it was a good thing too, there are only a few pages left in the book,) he had to go sort the OW out. It seems the OW is married to his cousin but she is infertile and the cousin is mean to her about it. So the OW and her husband fight and the OW runs to the H for support, cause he is her anchor and the head of the family.
But now she has dumped the husband for good and the H had to go find
Also the H had to pump and dump the h five years earlier because she won an art competition scholarship and
But all this is forgotten now, cause the H had to bail out Gramps from an unscrupulous embezzling accountant and give him money to live and the least the old codger can do is
This one had it's cute moments, but really PW should give up the Greek H's at this point. Mainly cause aside from her first HP, when she has Greek H's she gives them sherbet popsicle h's who puddle at the slightest rise in temperature and melt at one glance from the H's intense eyes.
So the H's come across as uber bullies bulldozing a helpless baby bunny h - it makes you want to scoop the h into your pocket and outrun the forest fire.
Unfortunately, PW's Mark II Greek H's also have NO charm. They may or may not be unrequitedly carrying love smouldering embers for the h for years.
Most of the fun of a PW H is that he is utterly, hopelessly and quite besottedly in love with the h and she just won't see it, that is not the case here.
However the h is adorable and cuddlesome and I liked her even tho she was utterly ineffective at anything other than pretty pictures. So read this one if you like the fluffy bunny PW h and want a pretty standard HP day at the office.
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July 21, 2021
Heroine is an artist (painter) who almost had her career derailed by a love affair with the hero at age 19. He brutally broke it off after one night of sex because he realized she wouldn’t go to college and fulfill her talent if they continued their romance.
Heroine didn’t realize this – she suffered greatly when he left without a word, but she focused on her art and is now an up-an-coming artist.
She breaks up her work, work, work routine of five years when she senses her grandfather is being swindled. She journeys to the Greek island she spent all of her summers on with her mariner archeologist grandfather to see what’s up.
Turns out hero has bought the run down villa from her grandfather and has fixed it up. Rumor has it that he lives there with an OW, his cousin’s glamorous wife.
The H/h meet again and of course have to work through all of their past baggage (and race sailboats) before their HEA.
There is moderate angst in this one. PW kept the heroine busy with so many other things that the time with the hero felt short. Still, I believed their HEA.
Boogenhagen has all the details.
Heroine didn’t realize this – she suffered greatly when he left without a word, but she focused on her art and is now an up-an-coming artist.
She breaks up her work, work, work routine of five years when she senses her grandfather is being swindled. She journeys to the Greek island she spent all of her summers on with her mariner archeologist grandfather to see what’s up.
Turns out hero has bought the run down villa from her grandfather and has fixed it up. Rumor has it that he lives there with an OW, his cousin’s glamorous wife.
The H/h meet again and of course have to work through all of their past baggage (and race sailboats) before their HEA.
There is moderate angst in this one. PW kept the heroine busy with so many other things that the time with the hero felt short. Still, I believed their HEA.
Boogenhagen has all the details.
August 20, 2019
"Walk Upon the Wind" is the story of Emily and Alexi.
Whatever.
Basically, in this book the heroine returns to her grandfather's home to catch the culprit embezzling property from him, and comes face to face with her pompous ex.
The almighty hero had abandoned the heroine after taking her v card, and since then the heroine has made a name for herself in the field of art. When she meets him again, they play this weird cat and mouse game, soon after which the hero declares she would marry him. For every wrong the hero has done, there is a great excuse which is almost always apparently for the heroine's benefit, and after little reluctance, the idiota gives into his sizzling masculine magnetism.
I was just so annoyed. Stabby, stab annoyed.
GRRRRRR
SWE?
1.5/5
Whatever.
Basically, in this book the heroine returns to her grandfather's home to catch the culprit embezzling property from him, and comes face to face with her pompous ex.
The almighty hero had abandoned the heroine after taking her v card, and since then the heroine has made a name for herself in the field of art. When she meets him again, they play this weird cat and mouse game, soon after which the hero declares she would marry him. For every wrong the hero has done, there is a great excuse which is almost always apparently for the heroine's benefit, and after little reluctance, the idiota gives into his sizzling masculine magnetism.
I was just so annoyed. Stabby, stab annoyed.
GRRRRRR
SWE?
1.5/5
July 2, 2015
I expected more from this heroine, I felt her very weak for my tastes :/
I like my heroines stronger. When they say NO, is NO! So this one allows the hero say the last word and win the verbal fights ARG!!!
There were things that didn't like me, for instance, at the end when he confessed her why he abandoned her the first time. I don't know... that explanation didn't convice me too much.... u_u* and she forgive him so quickly!! Almost before the end of the book, before he left her for second time, she confessed him she loves him, but he just say goodbye and left her because there were people in Greece that needed him. I didn't like that part.
There is one thing I like and dislike about this author, which is that her heros are not manwhores (I have seen that only in the books I have read, I don't know the rest of her books). I like that, but in 2 books I read, that were reunion stories, she didn't clarify hero's celibacy during the separation. I have liked most of her heroines are virgins or celibates during the separation *_*
I like my heroines stronger. When they say NO, is NO! So this one allows the hero say the last word and win the verbal fights ARG!!!
There were things that didn't like me, for instance, at the end when he confessed her why he abandoned her the first time. I don't know... that explanation didn't convice me too much.... u_u* and she forgive him so quickly!! Almost before the end of the book, before he left her for second time, she confessed him she loves him, but he just say goodbye and left her because there were people in Greece that needed him. I didn't like that part.
There is one thing I like and dislike about this author, which is that her heros are not manwhores (I have seen that only in the books I have read, I don't know the rest of her books). I like that, but in 2 books I read, that were reunion stories, she didn't clarify hero's celibacy during the separation. I have liked most of her heroines are virgins or celibates during the separation *_*
February 6, 2017
Artist and gallery owner Emily learns that her beloved Gramps, living in Greece, is sick and someone is trying to do him out of all his money. Emily’s and her gallery owning partner close the gallery and head to Greece. There they will paint beautiful landscapes for an upcoming exhibition. Emily will get to the bottom of whoever is taking advantage of Gramps! Hopefully, she won’t see Greek Alexi, who broke her heart and took her virginity five years ago!
And sure, Greece is a big place, but Alexi is hanging around on this sleepy little Greek island, is friends with Gramps, takes Gramps out on archaeology dives, and has bought Gramps’ boat and extra bit of land and ruined house. Alexi has done up the ruined house and is living there with Eleni, his cousin’s wife. He’s the one taking advantage of Gramps! Emily must gather evidence!
Alexi is fiercely annoyed with Emily. She’s pretended that she doesn’t know him in their first encounters, and tells him that she has a boyfriend. Emily handles her hurt by telling Alexi she’s been having sex with just heaps of men since he deflowered her, and flat out implies that he’s sleeping with his cousin’s wife.
Alexi is crap. I’m usually prepared to find this brand of over-the-top arrogance funny, and enjoy the idiot hero. But he’s boring and weirdly stilted and he just doesn’t work. I had no sympathy for him. I think I was supposed to pick up that his control issues stemmed from having to take over the family business so young. That’s all well and good, but I was never in any doubt that he was going to end up with exactly what he wanted, when he wanted it. Everything was gravy for Alexi.
His reason for abandoning Emily the first time is frustrating and ridiculous. When he does it a second time in the last part of the book, it’s even more stupid. The romantic plot turns on him being convincingly in love with Emily for years: and he isn’t.
He’s manipulative. His response to Emily’s anger is to tell her that she’s being childish. It’s an effective control mechanism: he only gives her his approval when she surrenders to his will.
It’s also questionable to me just how helpful he is being to Eleni. Eleni’s backstory is that she’s a bitch and no one likes her, but that she’s also infertile. She shows up at Alexi’s door when she becomes ‘unwell’ because her husband, Alexi’s cousin, is again using her infertility against her. The pattern seems to be that it becomes too much for Eleni to handle, Alexi takes her in, the cousin calms down, and Eleni goes back.
Perhaps Alexi is not taking advantage of Eleni’s obsession with him. Perhaps he means well in taking her in. But there was enough in the way he describes Eleni’s and the cousin’s marriage to make it clear that Alexi knew that this woman was in an abusive relationship. Keeping it in the family, keeping it private, was more important than Eleni’s wellbeing.
Emily, for all her insistence that she wants her freedom, and that her art comes first, is weak. She had opportunities to stand up for herself, and she didn’t take them. She was incompetent in her quest to help Gramps in his finances, and that got to me. Her thinking seems to be that Alexi is a bad person because he seduced and abandoned her, and is therefore capable of taking advantage of an old man. She never for a moment considers telling Gramps that Alexi is a bad man, and why. Not that it would have made the situation any better if she had: telling Gramps that Alexi had seduced her would have had a far more negative impact on her relationship with her grandfather, than on his relationship with Alexi.
Which is part of the interesting underlying motivations for romantic heroines. They rarely, if ever, flat out acknowledge why they keep silent. They just shift around the problem, getting more miserable and getting nothing done. Sure, it’s great that everything will work out in the end because the hero is not a monster, and the heroine has made it through without irreparably damaging some important relationships … but knowing that one is down to pure chance, and the other is down to deciding to stay silent, leaves a bad taste.
Once Alexi finally gave his explanations for why he’d abandoned her, twice, Emily just rolled over and took them.
This was such a frustrating read. I might have been kind of ok with it if Alexi had gotten in a good grovel in the end. That would at least have been some sign of character development. He hurt her very badly. Emily was so in love, and her complete forgiveness was not with an equal degree of remorse from him. For Alexi, this whole romance is him pressing play after five years on pause, and then some frustration until Emily finally ‘sees reason.’
And sure, Greece is a big place, but Alexi is hanging around on this sleepy little Greek island, is friends with Gramps, takes Gramps out on archaeology dives, and has bought Gramps’ boat and extra bit of land and ruined house. Alexi has done up the ruined house and is living there with Eleni, his cousin’s wife. He’s the one taking advantage of Gramps! Emily must gather evidence!
Alexi is fiercely annoyed with Emily. She’s pretended that she doesn’t know him in their first encounters, and tells him that she has a boyfriend. Emily handles her hurt by telling Alexi she’s been having sex with just heaps of men since he deflowered her, and flat out implies that he’s sleeping with his cousin’s wife.
Alexi is crap. I’m usually prepared to find this brand of over-the-top arrogance funny, and enjoy the idiot hero. But he’s boring and weirdly stilted and he just doesn’t work. I had no sympathy for him. I think I was supposed to pick up that his control issues stemmed from having to take over the family business so young. That’s all well and good, but I was never in any doubt that he was going to end up with exactly what he wanted, when he wanted it. Everything was gravy for Alexi.
His reason for abandoning Emily the first time is frustrating and ridiculous. When he does it a second time in the last part of the book, it’s even more stupid. The romantic plot turns on him being convincingly in love with Emily for years: and he isn’t.
He’s manipulative. His response to Emily’s anger is to tell her that she’s being childish. It’s an effective control mechanism: he only gives her his approval when she surrenders to his will.
It’s also questionable to me just how helpful he is being to Eleni. Eleni’s backstory is that she’s a bitch and no one likes her, but that she’s also infertile. She shows up at Alexi’s door when she becomes ‘unwell’ because her husband, Alexi’s cousin, is again using her infertility against her. The pattern seems to be that it becomes too much for Eleni to handle, Alexi takes her in, the cousin calms down, and Eleni goes back.
Perhaps Alexi is not taking advantage of Eleni’s obsession with him. Perhaps he means well in taking her in. But there was enough in the way he describes Eleni’s and the cousin’s marriage to make it clear that Alexi knew that this woman was in an abusive relationship. Keeping it in the family, keeping it private, was more important than Eleni’s wellbeing.
Emily, for all her insistence that she wants her freedom, and that her art comes first, is weak. She had opportunities to stand up for herself, and she didn’t take them. She was incompetent in her quest to help Gramps in his finances, and that got to me. Her thinking seems to be that Alexi is a bad person because he seduced and abandoned her, and is therefore capable of taking advantage of an old man. She never for a moment considers telling Gramps that Alexi is a bad man, and why. Not that it would have made the situation any better if she had: telling Gramps that Alexi had seduced her would have had a far more negative impact on her relationship with her grandfather, than on his relationship with Alexi.
Which is part of the interesting underlying motivations for romantic heroines. They rarely, if ever, flat out acknowledge why they keep silent. They just shift around the problem, getting more miserable and getting nothing done. Sure, it’s great that everything will work out in the end because the hero is not a monster, and the heroine has made it through without irreparably damaging some important relationships … but knowing that one is down to pure chance, and the other is down to deciding to stay silent, leaves a bad taste.
Once Alexi finally gave his explanations for why he’d abandoned her, twice, Emily just rolled over and took them.
This was such a frustrating read. I might have been kind of ok with it if Alexi had gotten in a good grovel in the end. That would at least have been some sign of character development. He hurt her very badly. Emily was so in love, and her complete forgiveness was not with an equal degree of remorse from him. For Alexi, this whole romance is him pressing play after five years on pause, and then some frustration until Emily finally ‘sees reason.’
June 11, 2015
It was a good read but this author has written better.
August 4, 2025
The h was childish and she lied a lot. But he’s a smitten man and that makes up for her silly acts.
October 15, 2018
The story started fine with the artist heroine, Emily, suspecting her sick grandfather being robbed consistently by a Greek stranger! She goes to investigate the matter by merely staying with her grandfather and painting while waiting for this Greek villain to show himself! Unfortunately, she discovers that villain is her previous lover who had left her 5 years ago!
From this point on, I started flipping some pages! The events were a little bizarre and illogical! What could have been solved in a minute's discussion, took many chapters to solve! If the hero and heroine were really into each emotionally as much as physically, they would have been more honest with each other from the start. I'd hate to say this book was a disappointment - since Patirica Wilson is one of my favourites - so I'd only say it was not in the level of her best or even very good books. The events were too forced for me to digest! Sorry!
From this point on, I started flipping some pages! The events were a little bizarre and illogical! What could have been solved in a minute's discussion, took many chapters to solve! If the hero and heroine were really into each emotionally as much as physically, they would have been more honest with each other from the start. I'd hate to say this book was a disappointment - since Patirica Wilson is one of my favourites - so I'd only say it was not in the level of her best or even very good books. The events were too forced for me to digest! Sorry!
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August 11, 2014
This is one of those reads where everyone "gets it" but the heroine.
I'm typically okay with that, if the hero is absolutely scrumptious. Usually Patricia Wilson does not disappoint in writing those wonderful, besotted heroes that make me swoon. However, for some reason this time it just didn't work. Alexis left me a bit cold.
I'm typically okay with that, if the hero is absolutely scrumptious. Usually Patricia Wilson does not disappoint in writing those wonderful, besotted heroes that make me swoon. However, for some reason this time it just didn't work. Alexis left me a bit cold.
November 11, 2022
Well I'll be, a Patricia Wilson book I didn't love. But to be fair it's entirely because I loath, utterly loooath, the trope of 'I dumped you so cruelly all those years ago for your own good'. No, no no nope. I just can't forgive it, stone cold dumping a girl in such a way that she spirals into depression and can't eat and is a shell of her former self for years only to decide 'I'll have you back now' without a word of apology? No grovel? Sir, I refuse!
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April 18, 2024Eu amo PW, mas tenho que admitir que seus H gregos são uma droga. Não, definitivamente.
December 8, 2015
Sun, sea-and seduction
Emily was no longer innocent or vulnerable enough to fall for a ruthless man like Alexi Karivalis. In the five years since their love affair ended, she had channeled her emotions into building a career-her work had become her only love. But under the scorching sun on a tiny Greek island, Alexi's reappearance in her life raised alarming suspicions-that the man she would once have gladly died for was now swindling her grandfather AND skillfully working his way back into her heart.
Emily was no longer innocent or vulnerable enough to fall for a ruthless man like Alexi Karivalis. In the five years since their love affair ended, she had channeled her emotions into building a career-her work had become her only love. But under the scorching sun on a tiny Greek island, Alexi's reappearance in her life raised alarming suspicions-that the man she would once have gladly died for was now swindling her grandfather AND skillfully working his way back into her heart.
May 26, 2019
Sun, sea - and seduction
Emily was no longer innocent or vulnerable enough to fall for a ruthless man like Alexi Karivalis. In the five years since their love affair ended, she had channeled her emotions into building a career-her work had become her only love. But under the scorching sun on a tiny Greek island, Alexi's reappearance in her life raised alarming suspicions - that the man she would once have gladly died for was now swindling her grandfather AND skillfully working his way back into her heart.
Emily was no longer innocent or vulnerable enough to fall for a ruthless man like Alexi Karivalis. In the five years since their love affair ended, she had channeled her emotions into building a career-her work had become her only love. But under the scorching sun on a tiny Greek island, Alexi's reappearance in her life raised alarming suspicions - that the man she would once have gladly died for was now swindling her grandfather AND skillfully working his way back into her heart.
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