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Overview

Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands. But the unpleasant task at hand turns seriously criminal when Carrie is brutally murdered and everyone involved with the ceremony is accusing one another of doing the deed.

The problem is, most everyone—from the cake maker and the florist to the wedding-gown retailer and the bridesmaids’ dressmaker—had his or her own reason for wanting the bride dead, including Jaclyn. And while those who felt Carrie’s wrath are now smiling at her demise, Jaclyn refuses to celebrate tragedy, especially since she finds herself in the shadow of suspicion.

Assigned to the case, Detective Eric Wilder finds that there’s too much evidence pointing toward too many suspects. Compounding his problems is Jaclyn, with whom he shared one deeply passionate night before Carrie’s death. Being a prime suspect means that Jaclyn is hands-off just when Eric would rather be hands-on. As the heat intensifies between Eric and Jaclyn, a cold-blooded murderer moves dangerously close. And this time the target is not a bride but one particularly irresistible wedding planner, unaware of a killer’s vow.

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To many of us, wedding planning seems like a dream job, a profitable way to share the joyous nuptials of couples every month of the year. For Jaclyn Wilde, that bliss by association vanishes when her latest bride-to-be is found brutally murdered. And she's not just mourning the bride: It doesn't take long for her to discover that she's at the top of the suspect list. The latest sexy, suspenseful story by an award-winning romance author.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780345506900
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/28/2011
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 130,768
Product dimensions: 4.02 (w) x 6.92 (h) x 1.08 (d)

Meet the Author

Linda Howard is the award-winning author of many New York Times bestsellers, including Ice, Burn, and Death Angel. She lives in Alabama with her husband and a golden retriever.

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Chapter One

Six weddings in five days. Holy shit.

All Jaclyn Wilde could think was that her mother, Madelyn, who was her partner in Premier, the events planning firm to hire in the greater Atlanta area if you wanted your guests to be impressed, must have been sipping a couple or twelve champagne martinis when she’d accepted so many bookings so close together. It wouldn’t have been nearly as bad if the bookings had been anything other than weddings: a party was simple in comparison to a wedding, because they were relatively free of emotional turmoil. A wedding, on the other hand, was fraught with every emotion known to man. It wasn’t just the brides; it was the bride’s mother, the groom’s mother, the maid of honor, the bridesmaids, the parents of the flower girl and the ring bearer, the cousins who weren’t invited to be in the wedding party, what colors to choose, the date, the location, the damn font on the friggin’ invitations . . .

“Jaclyn Wilde,” the clerk called, interrupting Jaclyn’s increasingly stressed and frantic thoughts.

The clerk’s voice was too cheerful. Didn’t she realize it was inappropriate to sound cheerful when you were collecting payments for traffic violations? Maybe it was asking too much that she sound glum, but she could at least sound bored and noncom?mittal, instead of all but dancing with glee at taking someone’s money.

Jaclyn stifled her irritation; it stemmed more from the almost impossible workload facing her during the coming week than it did from paying her speeding ticket. Adding to her stress was the fact that because they’d been working so hard, she’d forgotten to mail in the money for the speeding ticket, and today was the day it was due, so she’d either had to take time off from work—thereby increasing the stress by getting behind—or have a warrant issued for her arrest. Yeah, that would be a real stress-reducer.

Being late was her fault. If the city of Hopewell, where she lived and where she’d received the ticket, had been set up to receive online payments, she could have handled it that way, but it wasn’t. She got up, silently forked over the cash, and a minute later was striding down the hall, the speeding ticket already forgotten because that particular item had just been checked off her to-do list.

She glanced down at her watch. She had just enough time to get to her next appointment—Carrie Edwards, a bitch for all seasons, and one of the reasons why six weddings in five days was looming as Mission Impossible. Carrie’s wedding wasn’t even one of the six; her wedding wasn’t for another month, but Carrie was taking up way too much of their time with her histrionics and constant flip-flopping on decisions. One bridesmaid had already told her—Carrie, not Jaclyn—to go fuck herself, which was a first in ?Jac?lyn’s experience. Usually, no matter what the bride did, the members of the wedding party would grit their teeth and see it through. Even when they did drop out, they’d make polite excuses. Not this girl; she’d let Carrie have it with both barrels, and hadn’t minced words.

When the blow-up happened, Jaclyn had stepped out of sight, allowed herself a wide smile and a fist pump, then schooled her expression and returned to try to forestall a hair-pulling, eye-gouging cat fight. She’d have loved to see Carrie with a black eye, but business was business.

If she hadn’t been so wrapped up in her thoughts she might have been faster on her feet, but when a door suddenly swung outward she was caught by surprise and slammed into the tall, dark-haired, dark-suited man who stepped into the corridor. She gave a short, sharp “Oomph!” The impact knocked her briefcase from her hand and sent it spinning across the gray-tiled floor. She felt one foot, elegantly shod in three-inch heels, begin to slip, and in panic instinctively grabbed the man’s arm to steady herself. Her free arm slipped inside his open jacket and she grabbed a handful of shirt fabric, holding on for dear life. The side of her arm brushed against something very hard, and there was a very brief glimpse of leather before she made the startled identification of holster, followed by gun, then cop. Considering she was in city hall, the conclusion was both logical and inescapable.

The arm she grabbed turned to iron as the man immediately tensed it to hold her weight; he half-turned, his other arm sliding around her waist to catch her. For a brief moment, no more than the second needed for her to catch her balance, she was held firmly against a very warm, very solid, indisputably male body.

He released her the moment she was sure-footed, but he didn’t back away. Not immediately, anyway. She blew out a shaky breath. “Wow. Whew.” Her heartbeat, thrown into high gear thanks to the collision and almost falling, was pounding against her rib cage so hard she could feel the thuds. A spill on the floor of city hall would’ve been par for the course on this perfectly crappy day, but the last thing she needed right now was to break an ankle or something. Even a sprained ankle, at this point, would throw Premier into a time-crunch they simply wouldn’t be able to handle.

“Are you all right, ma’am?”

He bent his head down as he spoke and his breath, scented with spearmint chewing gum, brushed her temple. His voice was a warm baritone, with a slight rasp that roughened it just enough to take the tone from mellow to something . . . more. She didn’t know just what that more was, just that it was there— Wait a minute. Had he just called her ma’am?

Did she look that haggard?

Jaclyn squashed her initial annoyed reaction. The badge he wore explained the “ma’am.” Actually, being almost anywhere in the South explained it. He wasn’t commenting on her appearance; he was a cop, a civil servant on his best behavior. She blew out another breath, and realized she hadn’t yet released her grip on either his arm or his shirt. He couldn’t step back, not as long as she clung to him. She forced her fingers to unclench from both shirt and arm, and she took the necessary step back to put some distance between them.

“I’m fine,” she said as she looked up at him. “Thanks for catching me. I wasn’t paying attention to where I was going.” A small part of her brain, the part reserved for hormones and irrational decisions, gave a wolf whistle. Abruptly she felt both over-heated and overexcited. Damn, he was fine-looking, in a way that wasn’t at all boyish and depended more on strength and an air of competency than it did on regular features. There were boys, and there were men. This was a man. This was a man who had it, that indefinable quality of sex appeal, maturity, and strength all mingled together into a potent whole.

He gave a slight smile, a nice and natural, easy curve of his lips. “Not the best layout here, as far as traffic goes.”

“Don’t mention traffic to me,” Jaclyn said, almost under her breath.

He shot a quick glance of comprehension in the direction from which she’d come, and his smile widened a little. She liked that smile more than she should.

In her line of business, Jaclyn met a lot of men; unfortunately, they were usually about to get married. Not always, of course, but it took something special to get her attention this way: a certain look, an unexpected chemistry . . . and to be honest, it had been a very long time since she’d had the time to admire any man.

She didn’t have time now, either. She had to really hurry, or she’d be late.

“Thanks again. Sorry I almost smashed you flat.” She gave the polite cop a quick nod of her head, a friendly—but not too friendly—good-bye, then looked around for her dropped briefcase.

The case had spun all the way across the wide hall, coming to a stop against the far wall. Before she could reach for it, a man in stained jeans and a dingy T-shirt stretched tight over an enormous beer belly laboriously bent down and picked up the case. “Here ya go, ma’am,” he said, holding the slender case out to her in one meaty paw and smiling a ridiculously sweet smile for such a rough face.

“Thank you,” Jaclyn said as she gripped the handle, giving the burly guy a warmer smile than she’d given the cop, because she wasn’t attracted to him at all, so being nice to him didn’t seem as dangerous as being nice to the cop. As she strode away down the hall she mused on how cock-eyed that reasoning was, on a logical basis, but how rock solid it was on some gut-level feminine instinct. She didn’t have time for the cop, didn’t have time to be attracted to him, so she wasn’t about to do anything that might attract him.

As she walked away, she was almost certain that he was watching her, but she didn’t dare turn around to look. She didn’t need to turn around; she could practically feel the bull’s-eye his gaze was painting on her back.

She hurried out to the parking lot, using her remote to unlock her steel-gray Jaguar just before she reached it. In almost one motion she opened the door, tossed her briefcase onto the passenger seat, and slid behind the wheel. Her first action then was to hit the door lock, a safety precaution she’d taken so often it was second nature to her now. As she turned the key with one hand, she was pulling the seat belt into place with the other.

She didn’t need another ticket, so she kept an eye on the speedometer. She especially wasn’t going to speed on the way to a meeting with Carrie Edwards; it was all she could do to keep the car heading in the right direction, and even then she flirted with the idea of calling her mother and saying, “I’m throwing up, have hives, and probably the measles; can you handle my meeting with Carrie?” So what if Madelyn was occupied with getting the final details in place for a wedding tomorrow, and had the rehearsal to get through? Madelyn was the one who had taken Carrie’s booking in the first place, so it was only right she should share some of the joy of dealing with her.

Jaclyn sighed. No, she couldn’t do that to her mother. Well, maybe she couldn’t. She certainly wasn’t in a hurry to meet with Carrie, who was the worst of the worst in a business that often seemed to bring out the worst in some women. Sometimes a client would be a delight from start to finish, but just as often one of the principals would make her think there really was something to be said for getting married at a courthouse or an all-night chapel in Vegas—not that she’d be foolish enough to say so aloud. After all, weddings were her bread and butter.

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harstan

Posted July 25, 2010

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excellent romantic suspense

While paying her traffic ticket fine, Jaclyn Wilde loses her balance and falls into the arms Hopewell, Georgia Police detective Eric Wilder. She likes what she sees (and feels), but has no time for an encounter because as an event planner for Premier, which she co-owns with her mom, they host six weddings in five days.

At the end of a brutal day made worse by Carrie "Bridezilla" Edwards, Jaclyn stops off for a drink. Also at the same bar is Eric. The exchange business cards so they can hook up in a week, but lust gets the better of them and they spend a night making love.

Carrie fires Jaclyn and slaps her former planner in the face in front of many witnesses. A few hours later, Carrie is found murdered with the weapon being kabob skewers. Eric leads the investigation and as such must treat Jaclyn as a stranger being that she is a prime suspect; although he is positive she is not the killer. He plans to find the killer, keep Jaclyn safe from someone who wants her dead, and somehow regain her trust lost by doing his job.

The quality of Linda Howard's romantic suspense novels remains consistently high as affirmed by Veil of Night. The tale is filled with tense intrigue, a strong police procedural investigation, a memorable cast, plenty of humor and a powerful lead couple - the cop and the suspect who go from lust to distrust as Eric performs his job. This is a must read.

Harriet Klausner

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jordandean

Posted August 16, 2010

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Just Ok book from one of my favorite authors.

I love old school Linda Howard. I mean LOVE. I own them all. This one (as well as the next to last Burn) are not joining my keeper shelf. It was just meh. Sort of a blend of the funny To Die For books w/ Blair, but not as funny, with some of her suspense style. The whodunit part was also pretty flat and reminded me plot-wise of her Blair books too. I guess when you have written this many books plot lines sometimes get reused. I advise getting it from the library or waiting to borrow a friend's copy or just re-read To Die For which was hysterical and original Linda Howard!

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TubReader

Posted September 13, 2010

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Great characters but no mystery.

I've had issues before with Linda Howard before as an author because she a has a very strong habit of basically using the same characters over and over again but just giving them different names. However the plot of "Veil of Night" looked interesting to me and I was in need of book to relax with so I purchased it. I will say with this book, my biggest issue was not the characters, I actually found both Eric, Jaclyn and the other supporting characters to be interesting,relatable and humorous. My big complaint about this book was the actually the plot, it revolved around a murder of a bridezilla ( a character who isn't around long but you certainly don't grieve for her) and who did it. Howard has it all but spelled out for you in pretty much the middle of the book(although it is not for the characters) so you're not really left with the anticipation of the resolution of the murder.
I will say for anyone interested in this book ( or is just a Linda Howard), just be prepared for a serious lack of suspense and mystery but great chemistry between the two lead characters.

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BLUEEYEBE

Posted August 30, 2010

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Predictable but fun.

This is about an event coordinator named Jaclyn who is having a very busy week with six weddings in five days and a bride from hell to deal with in the meantime. It is a light hearted romantic suspense full of suspense, humor and drama. Predictable but fun.

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Anonymous

Posted August 16, 2010

Thin plot

This read more like a Harlequin paperback story. There was not enough meat to warrant a hardover book length or price. The details about a wedding planner's day were fun and interesting. I liked the characters and their romance.
The murder mystery/suspense part of this book was cobbled together. The synposis reads " a cold blooded murderer moves dangerously close...". There were many times I forgot there was any danger at all.

Wait for the paperback or get it at the library

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Anonymous

Posted September 4, 2010

What Has Happened to Linda Howard?

I was eagerly awaiting this book because the synopsis sounded more like the Linda Howard I had been reading for years. She had starting writing dark stories that I found unappealing. So I was so hoping for a great read. Unfortunately it was a huge disappointment! The characters were so shallow that I could have cared less about them and the story was thin. Please, Linda, go back to writing the funny and sexy great reads that most Linda Howard fans adore!

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Anonymous

Posted August 16, 2010

Expensive?

Why is this ebook so expensive? I understand that only the hardcover edition is out right now, but other ebook stores have it for $10. We don't even get to use our Barnes and Noble membership discounts for ebooks...

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Ronelle

Posted January 28, 2011

WORST BOOK EVER- this does not deserve a rating.

To whom do I make a request to get a refund? Linda Howard should be ASHAMED of herself for writing this farce "an empty and patently ridiculous story" and calls it a novel. I've read her earlier books and have been entertained by them; to name a few Dream Man,Mr. Perfect, Dying to Please; Cry no more, is to me the last interesting book supposedly written by her. In the last five years the books with her name as author has been UTTER RUBBISH. I believe Linda Howard has lost her MOJO...or is someone else writting for her....

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Romance_rookie

Posted October 18, 2010

Not one of Linda's best

Jaclyn Wilde literally runs into Eric Wilder while dealing with a traffic violation at city hall. They end up later at a bar and have a night of very passionate sex. The next day Eric is called in to investigate the homicide of a young woman. It turns out Jaclyn is the main suspect, seeing as the victim was a young bride and Jaclyn her wedding planner. Jaclyn had been slapped in the face because the "bridezilla" was anything but pleased with Jaclyn's service. Eric has to clear Jaclyn's name and can't play favorites especially because of their former relationship.

Veil of Night starts off strong. It has a fast, interesting beginning. Unfortunately, things slowly deteriorate from there. First off, let me state for the record that I cannot be impartial when writing this review. I have been a long time fan of Linda Howard. She is one of my favorite all time authors, however I have been less than enthusiastic with her recent releases. This one included.

The problem for me is that I have come to expect a really superb romance, with a strong romantic thread between the hero and heroine. Veil of Night does not deliver in this aspect. While Jaclyn is a fine heroine and Eric a definite hero, the romance is left to the wayside as Howard allows the murder and the details to detract from the main relationship. I can't help but compare Howard's recent work with her former and it just can't compare.

I would say that if reading Howard for the first time, there is still something about her writing that can lend itself to intrigue. The characters invite confidence and an easy manner that will draw readers in. The mystery is somewhat ordinary and hard core mystery fans will most likely think that part of the story is weak. Overall, I am not impressed. I just can't help compare Veil of Night to her other work and it just doesn't stand up. It makes me so sad. I just don't want to give up on her books, but what can I do? I don't think I can hang in there any longer.

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Posted March 15, 2012

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DawnBuzy

Posted September 7, 2011

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Very disappointing

I did not like this book. (Sorry Linda, I am a fan of yours but this was blah.) My recommendations for Linda Howard books:

Death Angel
Kill and Tell
Mr. Perfect

And my all time favorite: All the Queen's Men
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8726040

Posted August 6, 2011

Meh

I am a huge fan of linda howard bit this one just didn't make me feel any type of connection with the characters. Frankly I thought the heroine was stuck up and the hero was dull.
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ameVA

Posted August 5, 2011

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Anonymous

Posted July 27, 2011

Definitely Linda Howard--good read

This one has all the ingredients of a good Linda Howard: Fun, strong, clever, witty, interesting hero and heroine. He's a detective, she's a wedding planner. They have a very hot night together, then there is a murder of one of her wedding clients and she immediately becomes one of the main suspects. He has strong feelings for her but being the good cop that he is, must examine all possible suspects. However, by investigating her and treating her as a suspect, he hurts her feelings and possibly ruins any chance of more developing between them. She is soon cleared and moves quickly from being a suspect to being a target because she may have unknowingly seen the murderer. So while she is trying to do her job, he is trying to protect her and continue his investigation, and somehow win her back to his side. The romance is hot, (although infrequent), the action is busy, and the mystery is very satisfying as the true murderer is kept from us till the last moments. My only complaint is that once the murderer is revealed, Ms. Howard, doesn't tell us why the person committed the murder. She is usually so good at tying up all the loose ends, so that left me a bit shocked. But otherwise, I would recommend the book.
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Life_Long_Movie_Watcher

Posted July 3, 2011

Funny, great characters, good mystery

Veil of Night was a fun, funny, who's the criminal, great cast of secondary characters mystery. I loved the dialogue in the book and laughed out loud in several places (main characters conversation in bar, discussion of murder victim, and type of car description discussion). My family asked me several time 'What are you reading that's so funny?' I also liked that there were not sections and sections of what was going through the bad guy/girl's mind. Like the characters in the book, you don't know 'who done it' until the police figure it out. This book also has excellent secondary characters with lots of different kind of people who surround you in real life. Definitely recommend!! If you liked Drop Dead Gorgeous or To Die For, you'll love Veil of Night. It you like Veil of Night, then try the above mentioned by Howard also.

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Anonymous

Posted April 29, 2011

Do not waste your Time!

I LOVE Linda Howard books but this is by far the absolute worst book I have ever Read! I can never get those hours of my life Back! Very disappointing. Not worthy of even one star.
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libraryliability

Posted March 17, 2011

disappointed...

I was disappointed with this novel. It seemed to me that it was a rush read and didn't hold me at all. It read more like a short story then a "typical" Howard book. I always look forward to her books and buy them the day they come out. Unfortuatly I wish I had just checked this out at the library. It was still a great read but.... Still love the books but wish this one was a little more developed. Next time I might check it out before I buy it if this is going to be the new norm.
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JessLucy

Posted November 29, 2010

I liked it!

I haven't enjoyed all of Howard's recent books but this one was hot! Loved the characters and as always, the author's style. It was also fun to get a glimpse into the world of wedding planning. I would also recommend: Shades of Twilight, After the Night, and MacKenzie's Mountain, by the same author. Other good reads include: A Thin Dark Line by Tami Hoag (mystery, suspense & romance), and anything by Lavyrle Spencer (romance).
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dhaupt

Posted October 14, 2010

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The wedding planning business can be Wilde, Wilder and even deadly

Jaclyn Wilde co-owns Premier an event but mostly wedding planning business. The last thing she needs in her life are the complications of a man especially after dealing with the bride of Satan all day, fondly known as bridezilla, but we rarely get what we want. Eric Wilder has to admit he likes his life the way it is, after all life for a homicide cop can sometimes be crazy days followed by crazy nights, but even he has to admit that there's just something about Jaclyn that pushes all the right buttons for him. A murder is just what might put a death to their new relationship, well better their relationship then them.
You'd think with the Romance Writers of America Career Achievement Award under her belt as well as dozens of previous novels, Ms Howard would relax just a bit, well you'd be wrong. The Queen of Romantic Suspense is at it again, this time in a suburb of Atlanta showing us that crime isn't just for the inner city. And who else would think of combining a bride reality show with a tough cop show, co-mingling the characters into one hot love story and do it all with not only killer drama but laugh out loud scenes from her many wedding scenarios and other humorous situations. And it couldn't be pulled off without incredible characters that are so three dimensional and life-like that you'd swear you've actually met them somewhere before. The romance is rife with meteroic sized pitfalls and as the attraction literally reels this couple in her readers will just have to prepare for the fireworks. The love scenes are hot, sexy and descriptive, so no reading this as a bedtime story for the little ones, in fact keep it in the deepfreeze because that's where you'll need to cool down after being a fly on the wall in the bedroom scenes.
This novel will please a multitude of fans, first the contemporary romance fan, then the romantic suspense fan, the thriller fan, the crime drama fan and finally but never least the fan of romance on the sizzle burner.
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AuntieJudy

Posted September 7, 2010

Disappointed

I love Linda Howard's writing and have read most of her books. So when I saw she had written this new one, I automatically preordered it even though it was $14.00. I was disappointed as it was not nearly as good as "Dream Man" or "To Die For". After it was released, it was $9.99 - what's up with that?

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