One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)

by Janet Evanovich

There are some men who enter a woman’s life and screw it up forever.

When I first wrote ONE FOR THE MONEY, Joe Morelli was what people in the romance novel industry called a bad-boy hero. A guy who plays by his own rules. He isn’t a bad person, but he’s a hundred percent trouble. He’s also smoking hot and a guaranteed good time. It’s a sure bet that self-control and good reasoning will go right out the window the second you see him. I’m not sure why the world loves bad-boy heroes so much, but we do. Han Solo, Wolverine and Bender from The Breakfast Club (remember him?). Even Ranger is a bad-boy hero. Whatever the appeal of the bad-boy, it seems timeless.