My name is Stephanie Plum. I've been a lingerie buyer, and a Bond Enforcement Agent. Now however, I work for Rangeman and having completed my Rangeman training, I went out in the field, and I also managed all the case files. To be honest, I didn't really need the full training course but that is a whole other story.

For a long time, I had a complicated relationship with two men in my life but after one particular incident where I'd caused him to dislocate and fracture his shoulder, me and my long term on and off again cop Joe Morelli called it a day. It took a while to get to the point where I liked him again and he almost supported me being with Ranger.

Me and Ranger had been through a lot since then, we both nearly lost our lives in different jobs and it drew us closer together than ever before. I'm not sure when but Ranger dropped the whole idea that he couldn't be in a relationship, So he finally stopped pushing me away and we were due to get married next year.

I was sitting in my office writing up case analysis for our last job when Tank knocked on the door.

I spun round in my chair and waved him in.

"Hey Bomber"

"Hey Tank. What can I do you for?"

"Ranger just called in to the 5th floor comms room, he's asked us all to meet in the board room in 15 minutes. Are you ok? He said he tried calling you direct but it kept bouncing down to us."

I smiled. "I'm fine Tank, I just really needed to get these case notes done so I came off the phone loop"

"That's ok then. Boss is on his way back from a client meeting he wants to discuss with the core team."

"That was a freakin' early call out. He left at the crack of dawn this morning. It's only 6am now!"

"I know. How comes you're up?"

I blinked and blushed. "Uhmm. I couldn't get back to sleep after he woke up this morning"

Thank let out a hearty laugh. "Riiiiight"

I quickly changed the subject.

"Did he say what it was about?"

"No, he was pretty cryptic to be honest"

I rolled my eyes. "When is he not?!"

Tank chuckled softly. "This is true. You're hardly engaged to an over-sharer"

"Definitely not! I'll see you down in the board room. I'm nearly done here"

"Over and out"

I smiled to myself as he shut the door behind him. I loved my team and I loved my job here. I'd always been able to read people well and pick up on things other people missed. Ranger called them my spidey senses. Turns out with some extra practice I was still a talented computer hacker (still...again...long story. We'll get there!) and I worked mainly in Client Intelligence.

I tidied up the file I'd been working on and put it in my drawer before heading to the lift and down to the 5th floor where the comms room and board room were.

The core team were all gathered. Me, Tank, Lester, Hal, Cal, Ram and Bobby. I'd just sat down when Ranger came in, kissed me on the top of my head and sat down next to me.

"Ok guys, I've just come back from a meeting with two representatives from British Intelligence. They've tracked down someone in the UK who looks like he might belong to us"

I raised an eyebrow and went to ask who it was but Ric continued.

"Alec O'Garra"

My blood ran cold. That was a name I didn't think I'd hear ever again.

"You ok babe? All the colour just drained from your face"

"Huh? Yeah, I'm ok. Just zoned out for a second. Sorry. Carry on"

"Ok. He'd been involved in some kind of drug smuggling ring but he dropped off the face of the earth. Covert American Surveillance picked up Alec O'Garra's face in London. Rangeman have been asked to track him down as it's more subtle than sending in one of the alphabet agencies, so it means travelling to London"

Lester tried to chime in something about British babes but Tank slapped him round the side of the head before he could finish.

Ric turned to me. "Babe, I've sent you his profile and all the intel the British team have collected on him so far. He's staying pretty deep underground but I think between us and them, we should be able to track him down. I've also sent you the British team's information. They're alot like us with a smaller set up but they handle much larger Government contracts. Since we know nothing about them, I don't want to take any chances so let me know what you think"

I nodded. I didn't need the file on Alec O'Garra. I knew far more than anyone would ever know.

He turned back to the rest of the team and told us we'd be flying out in two days time and hopefully we'll be coming back after a week or so.

"That's all. Back to work"

The team filed out.

"I've had Ella whip up some breakfast, so let's head back to the apartment and we can go over the files together"

"Okey dokey boss man"

He just looked at me with a half smirk on his face. "Babe"

I smiled back at him before following him out of the room and into the lift up to our 7th floor apartment. Fuck fuck fuck! How was I going to keep this all from unravelling?!