Passion's Mistral

PASSION'S MISTRAL
Charlotte Boyett-Compo
ISBN: 1-4199-0203-2
September 2005
Ellora's Cave
E-book
Contemporary Romantica

Silkie Trevor is not a bit happy with her latest assignment. However she is a professional so she wil do whatever is needed to solve this latest case. Her mission is to find the client’s son who had been taken from her and adopted out. The only way that Silkie will know that she has found the correct man amidst all of the helpers at Mistral Cay is to find an unusual birthmark on his scrotum.

Julian St. John, the mysterious owner of Mistral Cay, is every woman’s wet dream. Though he is the owner of the exclusive club that caters to rich women who dream of either being dominated or dominating the sexy helpers, Julian never partakes of what the guests offer him. Seeing Silkie for the first time however, Julian knows that he will be breaking the rule for her and her alone.

PASSION’S MISTRAL by Ms. Boyett-Compo is an utterly enthralling contemporary romance spiced with danger and dark secrets that will grip the reader from the very first. Silkie is an independent modern woman in the unusual profession of Private Investigator. Though she does not care for this assignment the reader can only applaud at her professionalism in attempting to see it through. Julian reminds this reviewer of a panther. He is sleek, dark and sex personified. Silkie and Julian are so obviously made for each other that the reader will want to reach into the book and slap Julian along side the head for taunting Silkie for so long.

The other characters in PASSION’S MISTRAL both enhance and detract from the story. In some cases, the readers are not really given an opportunity to form an opinion about characters that are obviously important to the story before they disappear. Other secondary characters really serve to enrich this offering. So the secondary characters are really a mixed bag.

All in all, PASSION’S MISTRAL is an enjoyable tale and very different from most of Ms. Boyett-Compo’s offerings. This reviewer recommends it for lovers of contemporary romance with a lot of heat thrown into the mix.

Reviewed by Shaiha
July 2006