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In the Wind's Eye [Paperback]

Charlotte Boyett-Compo (Author)
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May 30, 1999
Captain Sinclair McGregor has spent two years in the frozen hell of a Yankee prison camp. His life as he once knew it has been destroyed by the War. Returning home to Savannah to find his fiancée married to his worst enemy and his ancestral home sold for back taxes to the same man, he knows despair darker than the depths of the Abyss. His life in shambles, his heart broken, with no money or possessions to his name, he is forced to move in with the grandmother who raised him a woman who abused him as a child and despises him as a man. If Sinclair cannot take back the family mansion, she would rather see him dead and sets into motion a plan to have her wishes carried out. But no one counted on the love of four uniquely different women who band together to save Sinclair McGregor's life and soul. Only fate knows if they will be successful or if the ugly hatred of a bitter old woman will condemn him to a final hell.
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A gripping story of how far one person will go to destroy another. In the Wind's Eye is a strong, deeply emotional saga with all the mystery, deceit, and treachery of the old south's heritage. Not until the very last are all the loose ends tied up, leaving the reader to know this is a story they will never forget.... Ms. Boyett-Compo is an extemely gifted author with the skill to put together a truly magnificent story. Rich in the flavor of the old south, she has managed, with In the Wind's Eye, to take the reader on an impassioned journey to hell's door and back. A dramatic saga filled with enough betrayal and manipulation to last a lifetime. Truly spectacular, this is a fantastic writer worth the praise and effort of reading.

Tamara McHatton -- Rhapsody Magazine

Lovers of historical romance will revel in this tale by Charlotte Boyett-Compo. The vivid descriptions bring an immediate sense of place, and I found myself quickly transported to a world of passion, hatred, jealousy, vengeance, treachery, and unrequited love. This is a long book, but I had no trouble sitting in front of my monitor while reading. The story is so compelling that I found the hours at the computer whirling past. The characters are captivating, the writing smooth and lush. I was drawn in by the starcrossed tale of Sinclair and Ivonne, and simply could not stop reading until all the twists and turns in the complex plot were resolved. IN THE WIND'S EYE is a treat not to be missed. -- Best-Books.com

About the Author

Charlee is the author of seventeen books, the first nine of which are the WindLegend Saga, soon to be released by Twilight Times Books. Married 33 years to her high school sweetheart, Tom, she is the mother of two grown sons, Pete and Mike, and the proud grandmother of Preston Alexander and Victoria Ashley. A native of Sarasota, Florida, she grew up in Colquitt and Albany, Georgia and now lives in the Midwest. She is a proud member of the Authors' Guild, National Writers' Union, the Writer's Club Romance Group, Romance Writers of America, Romance Foretold, EPIC (the Electronically Published Internet Connection), Women for Literature, Ardeon, E-Authors, the Phenominal Women of the Web, and the first author to be published by Twilight Times Books and the first Amercian author to be published by Bell Ventures in Denmark. Recently, she won Soliloquoy's Fine Writers Online award. She is a member of Beta Sigma Phi, the HTML Writers Guild, and is the parish secretary of her local Catholic church as well as the creator and webmaster of its webpage. Her hobbies are writing, watching Canadian actor Eric McCormack do his magic, and collecting wicker bird baskets (she has over fifty duck, rooster, and chicken baskets). She is owned by six cats and one hall monitor Chow. Currently, she is at work on a new anthology.

Charlee Compo can be reached at wndkepr@pcpartner.net


Product Details

  • Paperback: 447 pages
  • Publisher: DLSIJ Press (May 30, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1928973108
  • ISBN-13: 978-1928973102
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,490,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Charlotte "Charlee" Boyett~Compo began her writing career as an entertainment editor for one of millionaire Warren Buffett's Sun newspapers in Omaha, NE in the early 1970s. Her first novel, The Keeper of the Wind, was released in mass market paperback in 1996. In 1998, BloodWind, NightWind, In the Wind's Eye, Prince of the Wind, WindFall, and WindChance were released a month apart. Since then, she has had over 70 novels published in print and e-book format. There are over twenty of her titles available in Kindle format. She writes for Cerridwen Press, Ellora's Cave, New Concepts Publishing, Phaze Books, Ravenous Romance, and Samhain Publishing. Her website...located at www.windlegends.org...has over 900 reviews of her novels plus synopses and excerpts from her 70+ works.

Charlee writes in the speculative fiction genre with a heavy emphasis on dark fantasy, paranormal romance, and SF/futuristic. Her signature Reaper series of novels have a large fan following. Vampire/werewolf hybrids, Reapers are tall, dark, and handsome tortured heroes with black hair and amber eyes. You can find her Reapers in the WindVerse, WindWorld, DemonWind, and WesternWind series of novels. The award-winning novels all have the word 'wind' in the title in some form or other as a tribute to her husband, Tom: the wind beneath her wings and the love of her life.

Adopted at birth, she was born in Sarasota, FL but was raised in Colquitt and Albany, GA. Because of this, she proudly labels herself a Sunshine Cracker. Married 43 years to her high school sweetheart, she became a widow on April 18, 2009 when her beloved husband...known affectionately to her fans as Buddha Belly...passed away from lung and brain cancer due to exposure to Agent Orange during his tours of duty in Vietnam in the late 1960s. Their two sons, Pete and Mike as well as Pete's son and daughter, Preston and Victoria, live with her in the Heartland of America. The willing caretaker of ten indoor felines, she spends her free time reading, writing, and cleaning litter pans.

 

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars In The Wind's Eye, January 2, 2000
This review is from: In the Wind's Eye (Paperback)
Sinclair McGregor should be happy to return to Savannah. The war is over, he is no longer being brutalised at the Yankee-run prison camp. Everything would be wonderful, if only his fiancee, Ivonne, had waited for him. Instead she is another man's wife and there isn't anything Sinclair can do about it.

Ivonne and Sinclair had been in love since childhood, everyone in Savannah had known they would marry. Only Sinclair's gallant desire not to leave her a widow had stopped them marrying before he left for war.

If losing the love of his life wasn't bad enough, the winds of disaster had much more in store for the returning hero. In his absence, his childhood home "Windlass" was sold for back taxes. Windlass was the most beautiful and productive plantation in Georgia and now it belonged to Edward Delacroix.

For many years, Edward has been consumed with hatred for Sinclair, and he bought the property solely for revenge. Perhaps that was also the reason he had stolen Ivonne and made her his wife.

This complex and intriguing romance/suspense novel has the most devious plot twists. With a superb cast of villains, headed by a conniving, evil matriach, there is so much retribution going on that Sinclair will be lucky to survive.

Ms Boyett-Compo has done an incredible job and created a masterpiece of fiction.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb story-superior witing, March 17, 2001
This review is from: In the Wind's Eye (Paperback)
With the war finally over, the Union Army releases prisoner Confederate soldier Captain Rory Sinclair McGregor. After two years in a hostile prison with substandard conditions, Sinclair feels his nightmare is over. He returns to his hometown Savannah only to realize that his real nightmare has just begun.

Sinclair's fiancee Ivonne Bouchard married his bitterest enemy Edward Delacroix who also bought the family mansion WindLass during a back tax sale. His grandmother feels Sinclair shames the family heritage and plots his death because he is unable to regain the mansion. Still scarred from his incarceration, Sinclair feels deepening depression with no hope for the present let alone the future.

IN THE WIND'S EYE is an exciting Reconstruction Era romance that may seem to follow the rules of the sub-genre, but actually is extremely complex and filled with twists. The story line is exciting, yet very dark as it brings to life the aftermath of the Civil War on the losers. Anyone who takes pleasure from a story about that period will find the deep layers of Charlotte Boyett-Compro's skills turn her plot into a triumphant complex historical fiction.

Harriet Klausner

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Myshelf.Com Book Reviewer, October 3, 2001
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Windlass . . . home, peace, and security. These words were what kept Rory 'Sinclair' McGregor alive for the past four years fighting for his beloved Confederacy. Now the war was over - the north had won - it was time to start to rebuild what was left of his shattered life and live once again for the future. Unfortunately, the battle wasn't over . . . in fact it just had only begun. Expecting to find his beloved home and fiancée both anxiously awaiting his return he is stunned to learn all is lost to one evil enemy, Edward Delacroix.

Ivonne Boucharde Delacroix had loved Sinclair McGregor all her life. It pained her to see the devastation contained in his eyes. She alone knew she was responsible for putting the hopeless look there when she betrayed his love and trust by marrying another. Now is it her fate she must suffer alone in silence? Will she ever be able to reveal the horrors which forced her into marriage with Edward Delacroix? Circumstances cruelly torn their love apart, is there any hope it will be recovered?

Charlotte Boyett-Compo does an astonishing job in her creation of IN THE WIND'S EYE. Readers will be spellbound as she masterfully reveals the exciting plot twists that are contained in every page. This one will leave you guessing right up until the shocking conclusion is revealed. If ever a novel should be made into a television drama IN THE WIND'S EYE defiantly should be considered. Books like this do not come along every day and they are to be treasured and savored for future reading pleasure.

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