Chapter 1 : A High Bond

I was standing in front of the bond office where I worked comtemplating whether or not I really wanted this job.My name is Stephanie Plum and I'm a Fugitive Aprehension Agent a.k.a Bounty Hunter. This morning my boss a.k.a my cousing Vinnie, had called me and told me to get my bony white ass over here cause he had a high pay bond for me. Vinnie was a slug but beside his forth comings or maybe because of them he was a great bail bondsman. Vinnie bonded out criminals and allowed them to sleep in their own bed before their court date. If the criminal didn't turn up for their court date, the court kept Vinnie's money unless I could find the fugitive better known as F.T.A and drag them back to the system in a timly manner. For my services I got ten percent of the bond and a high bond often meant a large finders fee, and I really needed the money.

Sighing I walked through the glass office door and gave Connie a two finger wave. Connie didn't smile and that caught my attention immedietly.

"Whats up?"I asked looking around for either Lula (my sometimes partner) or Melvin (the file clerk).

"We have three high skips and Vinnie is thretaning to blow himself up, and my car broke down this morning which meant I had to walk here and I broke my ruddy shoe on the way, and these were a $200 pair of shoes." Connie took a breath and glared at me

"Do you want me to go on?" She asked

"No, is he in?" I asked pointing towards Vinnie's office

Connie grunted a reply and I walked round her office and banged on Vinnie's door. The door swung open and Vinnie grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and pulled me inside locking the door after him.

"What the hell?" I asked but Vinnie mearely grunted something about fucking bitches and people shooting at him.

He walked over to his desk and handed me a tin file. "High bond set at 5 million, name Daniella Daniels, we bonded her out as she was sponsored by Rangeman."

Rangeman was Ranger's security organisation and he had a whole assembly of merry men at his command. I took the file and flipped through it, if Ranger had put up sponsorship for a person who was now FTA this could prove to be interesting.

"Do you know why Rangerman is sponsoring her?" I asked the disgruntled Vinnie

"No idea but whatever you do don't tell Ranger she's FTA, he still has three days left to revoke his sponsorship, then if you can't find her a.s.a.p I'm out of a shit load of money... why are you still standing there," Vinnie yelled ushering me towards his office door," do whatever you have to, to find this girl and for fuck sake don't tell Ranger."

Then we one final shove he pushed me out of his office and slammed and locked the door behind him. Connie looked up as I walked out from his office and gave a tight forced smile, she had in her hand as printed permission form outlining my right to aprehend the FTA and grungingly handed it over to me. "Good luck, you're gunna need it." Then went back to filing her nail.

I took a quick look through the file and realised I hadn't any idea what she was in for. Agrr, mental head slap, I flipped through the file, 'arested for carrying concealed' was all it said but that didn't explain to me why she had such a high bond.

"Hey Connie, whats with this FTA, she was arrested for carrying concealed with no priors but her bond was set at 5 mill.'

Connie simply shook her head, 'she's suspected of killing a handful of people and the police want her for questioning over the death of another hadnful.'

'But why the high bond?" I asked lookihng over the very thin file one more time.

'I mean she's a single mum, you'd think the courts would have been lineant and whats her Rangerman conection anyhow?"

Connie simply shruged and went back to her filling. I didn't have a great feeling about this but hey it's my job right. So, turning on my heel I walked back to my new (second hand) purple honda civic. I didn't really like the colour but hey beggers couldn't be choosers and it was better than the Buick right.

Chapter 2 - How is Stephanie gonna find the ghost women? And what's her conection to the man of mystery?