After The Night

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The look she gave him now was slightly uneasy, and he wondered why. “To quote: Shut up if you know what’s good for you.” 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. That was believable, unless Yolanda always dressed at home as if she were the nineties version of June Cleaver. “Ten minutes,” Faith promised. 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.

Hello, I’m Faith Hardy,” Faith said, hurrying to correct the woman’s horrified assumption that she was Renee. “Are you Mrs. Foster?”She averted her head, staring stonily out the window. “It didn’t take long for you to come up with that angle,” she retorted.

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. Grayson Rouillard (34), was an alluring and mean a-hole. Rich, tall and handsome he was the man of every girls dreams. Gray's father was also a playboy but he loved his children. Gray's mother was a woman who prefers to stay alone and vehemently hates anyone touching her. It's a wonder she birthed two children. Gray was devastated and felt betrayed when his father left the town and the reason led to the Devlins. 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.

Faith was such a strong and amazing heroine, my favorite type when dealing with a hero who hates her. She wasn't weak even when her own family and the whole town wanted to bring her down. And it was this strength that attracted the most powerful man to her. Gray's inner monologues and confession to Faith that he was attracted to her when she was 14 (and he was 22) was not romantic or sweet to me.....instead it was a whole big dose of The sheriff was silent, blue eyes hooded as he thought. “On the surface,” he finally drawled, “you’re the most likely suspect, Gray.” Faith started an immediate protest, but he waved her to silence. “Guess you knew that, too, what with the note and all,” he said to her. “So that makes me wonder why you called him, rather than the sheriff’s department.” Yep, you can imagine how that turns out, and that is what causes the endless hate between the Rouillards and the Devlins.