How do her sleuthing skills compare to Stephanie Plums?
JE: I think she’s similar in that she is a very approachable, normal young woman with all of the same problems and aspirations that we all have. She has bad hair days, she has money issues, she’s struggling to establish a career for herself, there’s not a man in her life. The difference is that she is also an Unmentionable. She doesn’t realize this at the beginning of the book, but she has her own special set of skills that Diesel does not have. It turns out that these are two people who really do need each other. They need to work together to solve this really bad problem. When I first started out writing romance novels, the rule was, If you want to set up a lot of sexual tension, make sure the people have issues between them. You put them in a phone booth. You make sure they can’t get away from each other by putting them in a confined space, which is what happened here. They are in a confined space and need each other. Maybe they don’t like each other; maybe they wish things were dif
