A Stephanie Plum novel in which you find out a bit more about the mysterious Ranger, a cool dude who does the more dangerous bond skips for the bond place Stephanie works for. Ranger and Stephanie have a history and, although she loves Joe, her cop boyfriend, she is still very turned on by Ranger, and he knows it. But now Ranger is missing and his wife shows up in Jersey looking for him with blood in her eye. She comes gunning for Stephanie, believing that she is involved with Ranger. Next thing you know the wife is dead and Ranger's daughter has been kidnapped and the prime suspect is Ranger. Stephanie gets back to her place only to find Ranger hiding out in her apartment. He needs Stephanie's help to clear his name and to find out who really has taken his little girl.
It's interesting to see Evanovich's development of the Ranger character, who has evolved from the macho man of mystery to a guy that has a family, an ex-wife and a young daughter. I do wish, though, that the Stephanie character would be more self-reliant and less in need of being rescued from the bad guys she keeps running into. Still, overall, it was an exciting and enjoyable novel.
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