Chapter 1
December 19th I can't believe I finished my Christmas shopping 6 days before Christmas! You might be wondering what person is happy about finishing Christmas shopping so late, will I lead a very complicated life so those 6 days is like 2 months for me. My name is Stephanie plum and I am a kick ass bounty hunter from Trenton New Jersey, minus the kick ass part. I have an on again off again relationship with my Italian cop boyfriend Joe Morelli currently on again. He is six foot tall has a nice body with a Mediterranean skin; he also has a paper thin scare above his left eyebrow giving him that dangerous yet sexy appeal. Then I have will I don't really no what I have with Ranger. You see Ranger is my mentor for bounty hunting and my friend. He is a hot Latino with mocha skin and a body that can make women melt. The only thing me and Ranger had sleep together during one of Joe and my off agains and he sent me back to Joe only thing is that chemistry is still their, life is so unfair sometimes why do I have too fall in love with two people. Oh and apart from all these love problems my work problems like following me around too. Literally I get stalked by some of my FTA ( failures to appear), get my cars blown up, and on occasion start fires. So these 6 days mean a lot too me.
Right now I was in my car of the month a mini Volkswagen also known as a punch buggy. I had had a god day I caught both my two FTAS earning me 4,000 dollars and the rest of the day to shop. I was on my way home when I notice a car that had been following me ever since I came out of the mall parking lot. WOW I guess Ranger is starting to rub off on me. Actually I only noticed it because it was fire engine red 2008 Jag and today was kinda cloudy and the car stuck right out. Anyway I was running a list of crazy people I encountered but none of them stuck out to me. All my FTAS lately have been semi normal. I couldn't see the person driving the car the windows were tinted. Well I wasn't going to lead whoever it was right to my home so I pasted my apartment building going straight but the car turned down the street after my apartment I guess it was just a coincident. So I hooked an illegal right turn and went back to my apartment complex. I got out bags and all and went to my apartment. The first thing I was going to do was take a nice long hot shower. I opened my door and went inside I put my bags on the counter and gave Rex my hamster a grape. Hot shower here I come. I went into my bedroom a stooped dead in my tracks. He was lying on my bed.
"Surprise", was all he said