Early years

Adopted at birth, she was raised in Colquitt, Georgia by Floyd Carl Boyett and Vivian Hatcher Boyett. Raised as an only child, she did not learn she was adopted until her mother died in 1998. Through contacting the state of Georgia adoption services she would learn she had a brother and two sisters somewhere in Florida but was only given non-identifying information concerning them. As a result, she has become a strong advocate for opening adoption records.

She began writing her first book when she was twelve years old.

Early career

On July 10, 1966, she married Thomas Peter Compo, at Turner AFB, Albany, Georgia. In 1968, her first son, Thomas Peter Jr. was born and in 1971, Christopher Michael followed. Being married to a career military man meant living in many states over the course of twenty years. Tom, an Air Force weather forecaster was sent to Global Weather Central at Offut AFB, Bellevue, Nebraska in 1971 and Charlotte's first paying job as a writer came in 1972 when she became the entertainment editor for The Bellevue Leader Newspaper, owned by Warren Buffet. She put her writing career on hold while her sons were in school and instead took a job as a dental assistant from 1980 to 1991. Once her sons were in college, she took up writing again. Her first novel, The Keeper of the Wind, was released in mass market paperback in 1996 from Commonwealth Publications.

Personal life

After 43 years of marriage, her husband was diagnosed with lung cancer in February 2009 and she became a widow on April 18, 2009.

She lives in Iowa where she continues to write for several publishers.

Series Novels

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== The WindLegends Saga Series: ==

• Windkeeper
• Windseeker
• Windweeper
• Windhealer
• Windreaper
• Winddreamer
• Windbeliever
• Winddeceiver
• Windretriever
• The Prince of the Wind
• WindChance
• WindFall

== The DemonWind Series: ==

• BloodWind
• DarkWind
• EvilWind

== The Western Wind Series: ==

WyndRiver Sinner

• Reaper's Revenge
• Prime Reaper
• Tears of the Reaper
• Her Reaper's Arms
• My Reaper's Daughter
• Embrace the Wind
• Black Moon Reaper

== The WindVerse Series: ==

• Ardor's Leveche
• Pleasure's Foehn
• Phantom of the Wind
• Prisoner of the Wind
• Hunger's Harmattan
• Craving's Chinook
• Dancing on the Wind
• Emperor of the Wind
• WindChaser

== The BlackWind Series: ==

• BlackWind: Sean and Bronwyn
• BlackWind2: Viraiden and Bronwyn ]

== The WindTorn Series: ==

• In the Teeth of the Wind
• In the Heart of the Wind
• In the Arms of the Wind

== The WindWorld Series: ==

• Desire's Sirocco
• Longing's Levant
• Rapture's Etesian
• Lucien's Khamsin
• DesertWind

== The Tropical Winds Series: ==

• HardWind
• Passion's Mistral
• Hot Georgia Winds

== The WyndMaster Series: ==

• The WyndMaster's Lady
• The WyndMaster's Son

== The HellWind Trilogy: ==

• NightWind
• The Windstones
• DeadWind

Stand Alone Novels

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• Shadowlord
• Taken by the Wind
• In the Wind's Eye
• Shades of the Wind
• Journey of the Wind
• WindSheer
• WindBorn
• WyndRaider
• GhostWind
• Kiss of the Wind
• WindWarrior

Short Stories

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• WindWolf
• Spring Wind
• Summer Wind
• Autumn Wind
• Winter Wind
• Seasonal Wind
• WindSpectre
• WindStar
• Wayward Wind
• TailWind
• The Windsday Club
• Secrets of the Wind
• The Sting of the Wind
• Wendy's Summer Job
• Hunger for the Wind
• Memories of the Wind
• Wind in the Pines
• The Winds of Change
• Light in the Wind
• WindRush