Fiction. Mystery. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:#1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich�??s Stephanie Plum novels are: �??irresistible�?� (Houston Chronicle), �??stunning�?� (Booklist), �??outrageous�?� (Publishers Weekly), �??brilliantly evocative�?� (The Denver Post), and �??making trouble and winning hearts�?� (USA Today).
 
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is certain of three truths: People don�??t just vanish into thin air. Never anger old people. And don�??t do what Tiki tells you to do.
 
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie�??s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton�??s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it�??s on Stephanie to track him down. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape . . . or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Since the hospital staff�??s lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it�??s hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie�??s Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Stephanie is forced into working side by side with Trenton�??s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case.
 
The real problem is, no Cubbin also means no way to pay the rent. Desperate for money�??or maybe just desperate�??Stephanie accepts a secondary job guarding her secretive and mouthwatering mentor Ranger from a deadly Special Forces adversary. While Stephanie is notorious for finding trouble, she may have found a little more than she bargained for this time around. Then again�??a little food poisoning, some threatening notes, and a bridesmaid�??s dress with an excess of taffeta never killed anyone . . . or did they? If Stephanie Plum wan