A Bitter Veil Author:Libby Fischer Hellmann When Anna Schroder married fellow University of Chicago student Nouri Samedi, she imagined a future of happiness and security in his then-peaceful native country of Iran. But when the Ayatollah Khomeini seizes control of the region, Anna's way of life becomes a pathway to her own peril. Her loving husband transforms into a hostile stranger as hi... more »s modern ideals are supplanted by more traditional views. Then she is awakened by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the thick of night and arrested for her husband's brutal murder. As the dream she once held dear becomes a nightmare from which she may never awake, Anna must turn to unexpected allies in a race for her very survival.« less