title: Veil of Night: A Novel
author:  Linda Howard 
description: <b>Linda Howard</b> is the award-winning author of many <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers, including <i>Ice, Burn, Death Angel, Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, Dying to Please, Open Season, Mr. Perfect, All the Queens Men, Now You See Her, Kill and Tell, </i>and <i>Son of the Morning</i>, and co-author (with Linda Jones) of<i> Blood Born</i>. She lives in Alabama with her husband and a golden retriever.
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  After The Night
  
    
    
  
  Linda Howard
  
    
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  An _Original_ Publication of POCKET BOOKS
  
  POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas,
  New York, NY 10.020
  
  Copyright © 1995 by Linda Howington
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Pocket Books, 1230
  Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10.020
  
  ISBN: 0-671-79.936-3
  
    
  
  One
  
    
    
  
  It was a good day for dreaming. It was late in the afternoon, the sun throwing
  long shadows when it could manage to break through the thick woods, but for
  the most part the translucent golden light was tangled in the tops of the
  trees, leaving the forest floor mysteriously shadowed. The hot, humid sum