title: Visions of Sugar Plums
author:  Janet Evanovich 
description: In this story, Stephanie Plum has bigger problems than the usual thugs, thieves and hoodlums - this time, there's someone in her apartment who just won't leave. We - and Stephanie - meet a character as mysterious as Ranger and as sexy as Morelli.
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  Visions of Sugar Plums
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
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  Janet Evanovich
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  MY SISTER VALERIE CAME IN from the kitchen. Valerie is recently divorced and
  penniless and has moved herself and her two lads into my old bedroom. Before
  the divorce and the move back to Jersey, Valerie was living in southern
  California where she had limited success at cloning herself into Meg Ryan.
  Valerie's still got the blond shag. The resilient perkiness dropped out of her
  somewhere over Kansas on the flight home.
  
  "Dang," Valerie said, taking Diesel in.
  
  Grandma agreed. "He's a pip, isn't he?" she said. "He's a real looker."
  
  Diesel elbowed me in the side. "You see? They like me."
  
  I dragged Diesel into the living room. "They think you've got a nice ass.
  That's different from liking you. Sit in front of the television. Watch
  cartoons. Try to find a ball game. Don't talk to anybody."
  
  My mother and grandmother and sister were waiting for me