![]() ![]() As the series goes on, she finds herself torn between two equally hot men: Ranger, the mysterious, badass bounty hunter she tags along with to learn the ropes, and Joe Morelli, the sexy, soulful Italian cop who deflowered her at 16 and has come back for more. Stephanie is a bounty hunter whose klutzy derring-do and ditsy lustiness are rivaled only by her penchant for getting her cars blown up. Our Edith Wharton and Thomas Hardy novels lay unopened: Evanovich's busty, hapless, junk-food snarfing Jersey-girl heroine Stephanie Plum was our new best friend. During the ensuing stretch of dark winter days, my mother and I took turns racing happily through them all. I finished it jonesing for more luckily, it was the first of a series. ![]() ![]() And my mother was right: It was the cheeriest, most life-affirming thing I could have wished for. I was in a somber mood, but I devoured the whole thing in one night by the light of a tiny reading lamp. I looked skeptically at the glitzy cover, but I always do what my mother says. One day I arrived to find that my mother had left behind a book called One for the Money by Janet Evanovich with a note attached: "Read this - it'll cheer you up." ![]() Since my grandmother was asleep all day, we had a lot of time on our hands. When my grandmother came down with a severe case of the flu about 10 years ago, my mother and I took turns sleeping on an air mattress in her room in the infirmary. ![]()
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