After The Night

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I asked questions.” She didn’t say that it had evidently been common knowledge, for Ed Morgan to know about it. If Yolanda wanted to think she had been discreet, let her have that dubious comfort. But the worst thing was, Linda Howard is usually good for a decent situational romance. The characters in this book have a one night stand, then the next day she's a murder suspect and he's investigating the case. That might have been an interesting twist, except that I wanted to roll my eyes every time one of them thought, "S/he might have been the one, but..." Give me a break. You slept together once, a few hours after you met. This was one of those false equivalence stories, in which great sex = love. Unlike Nora Robert's Bride Quintet, Veil of Night shows a truer face of the perils a wedding planner faces. This book is hot, darkly humorous and has a great suspense plot to boot.

That's the year when this book was first published. It wasn't EONS ago, for chrissake. It's when we got our first iPad. As far as I know, women had stopped fainting in a man's presence long before that. One afternoon the wedding planner Jaclyn Wilde and Detective Eric Wilder run into each other at the courthouse, then later at a bar where they talk and discover their last names are almost the same -- Wilde and Wilder. Somehow they end up together in bed that same night. As much as I love this book. I don’t recommend you to read it. Because I can’t have you falling in love with Gray Rouillard. 👩🏻‍🦽💅🏼He was there in less than fifteen minutes, but those fifteen minutes seemed like an eternity. His tall form unfolded from the Jaguar, and he strolled up to the porch with his graceful, loose-hipped gait and a faint smile of masculine condescension on his lips, the hero arrived to save the helpless little woman from the ferocious beast. Faith didn’t take umbrage; he could think what he liked, if he would just get rid of that thing in her kitchen. She stared up at him, her face so bloodless that his smile faded. Faith Devlin ~No one expected her to amount to much. She had been a fragile little girl within a family that everyone considered trash. But Faith was strong and knew differently. Life had thrown that final blow 12 years earlier, a blow that only strengthened her resolve to prove everyone wrong. She wasn’t looking for redemption. She just wanted to go home. Returning home would mean searching for answers to questions from her past and it also meant facing the one man that she has loved for as long as she can remember. Would she be strong enough to stand up to him and the people who rejected her? He paused, distracted from the pleasure of her trust in him. “Note?” Sternness laced that one word.

Gray can’t help the attraction he feels for Faith. At the age of fourteen she possessed unmatched beauty; as a grown woman she’s gorgeous, but she’s the image of her mother and reminds Gray of the pain heaped on his family. Still, he can’t help himself; can’t stop pursuing her to the point of obsession. Even though I wanted Gray and Faith together, I was happy she didn’t just fall for him or let her guard down even though she was wildly attracted to him. I love a smart heroine! Faith kept her goals in place, and her resolve meant that Gray had work to prove himself, to gain her trust. Their romance was hot, lusty, and tumultuous, and I loved every battle they fought! The detective investigating the case is none other than the hot detective she spent a very satisfying night with the night before the murder. Jaclyn is both angry and dismayed because she thinks Det. Eric Wilder believes she’s a murderer. Eric knows that Jaclyn Wilde is innocent, but he also knows that because of his intimate knowledge of her he’ll have to look at her harder and more in-depth than any other suspect.....if he wants to continue to see her once the case is closed. Eric is a police detective. He meets Jaclyn and ends up sleeping with her that night. The next day, Carrie is killed. Eric is assigned to investigate, and he can’t continue his relationship with Jaclyn until he can clear her as a suspect. Therefore he can’t comfort her and must play by the book so his investigation won’t be questioned later. Jaclyn is angry that he considers her a suspect and that he doesn’t trust her.Jaclyn Wilde is an event (mostly weddings) planner, and her latest client Carrie Edwards is an outright diva b****. When Carrie is murdered, the detective Jaclyn had a one-night stand with, Eric Wilder (Wilde and Wilder, get it? Ugh), is the cop on the case. She's furious that she's considered a suspect, since Carrie slapped her and fired her shortly before she was murdered. Although Eric is fairly certain Jaclyn isn't the culprit, he still, understandably, does things by the book. Jaclyn saw a grey-haired man shortly before the murder, and it becomes apparent this person thinks Jaclyn can identify him, so she becomes a target as well. In the spirit of full disclosure, this is not my favorite Howard book, and I would probably have given this a lower rating (maybe), but I just LOVED the Hero here. I have a serious crush on Eric ❤️😂. He’s my new book boyfriend; I just love everything about him! He’s strong, sexy, has a great sense of humor, and I loved the way he falls in love with our heroine, Jacqlyn. stars. Not enough relationship development. She’s mad at him for most of the story. Some plot details were missing. Oh, only if it's a woman though. Not a man. Because we all know that a woman seeing a man furiously angry and out of control brings out different feelings in us. Fear. Yes, we need to be afraid of an angry man, but angry women are sexy and cute.

With a comforting pat to her hand, he stood and opened the screen door. Faith listened to his footsteps moving through the living room and into the kitchen. She averted her head, staring stonily out the window. “It didn’t take long for you to come up with that angle,” she retorted.My only tiny whining is perhaps that this narrator made our hero's voice slightly dorky and that the passage of time (since it was written 1995) sometimes is noticeable. Otherwise a fantastic good "from childishly sweet swarming love to adult mature heat need" Romance. I told you to be out by nightfall, and I meant it," Gray snapped. "Gather up what you want to take with you, because in half an hour I’m setting fire to whatever is left." With a family like that, the kid was doomed. In another couple of years, she'd be following in her mother's and sister's footsteps, because she wouldn't know any better. And even if she did know better, all the boys would come sniffing around her anyway, just because her name was Devlin, and she wouldn't hold out for long. You know as much about it as I do,” she replied, with a smoothness that he was beginning to think hid as much as it revealed. Gray and the girl were both naked on the bed, which was positioned with the headboard under the window on the adjoining wall. Neither of them was likely to see her, which was a stroke of fortune, because Faith couldn't have moved then even if they had both looked straight at her.

You’re really frightened, aren’t you?” he asked gently, hunkering down in front of her and taking one of her hands in his. Her fingers were icy, despite the steamy heat of the day. “Where is it?” I'm in love with Gray and Faith.❤ I absolutely loved their banter and their enemies-to-lovers story. There is a mystery that connects them to their ugly past. It was easy to guess who the culprit was, but the romance is the most enjoyable aspect of this amazing book. 💕 my first book by this author and definitely won't be the last.Now fast forward to present day...and Faith has returned to Prescott to find out what the true story is of what happened on that fateful night....the night where her mother supposedly ran away with Gray's Dad. I read this book years and years ago and I am so incredulously furious at myself for not remembering any of the characters or the storyline. I had no memory of this book apart from remembering the way I frantically scoured the internet looking for books like After The Night. Faith stared at them, her eyes burning. She wasn't jealous. Gray was so far above her, and she was so young, that she had never thought of him in a romantic, possessive sense. Gray was the shining center of her universe, to be worshiped from afar, and she was giddily happy with the occasional glimpse of him. Today, when he had actually spoken to her, and touched her shirt, had been paradise. She couldn't imagine herself in Lindsey's place, lying naked in his arms, or even imagine what it felt like. Gray hadn’t left the note. It wasn’t his style, for one thing; he had delivered his threats in person, and spelled them out. The last one still had her rattled. Who else would have been disturbed by her questions? There were two possibilities: someone with something to hide, or someone who thought to curry Gray’s favor. This is one of the better books I’ve read in quite some time. I enjoyed myself, I loved the romance, and I loved the fact that it’s romantic suspense without it being graphically descriptive of the murder that’s happened as part of the plot line.