In Hot Six, Stephanie’s bounty hunting mentor, Ranger, has been seen on camera walking out of a meeting with Homer Ramos, who is found minutes later with a bullet in his head and his body burnt to a crisp. Although the blurb makes it sound like it’s up to Stephanie to find him, she refuses to look because she knows he’s much better than she is at the bounty hunter business.

Joyce Barnhardt, Stephanie’s arch nemesis (haha), is the woman who was caught on the dining room table with Steph’s now-ex-husband, Dickie Orr, and she is the one who takes the FTA on Ranger. In the meantime, he charges Stephanie with keeping surveillance on the gun-running Ramos family to help find out who really killed Homer. Stephanie manages to kill four cars in this book, and it is pretty funny. She has many people following her, including a guy who is constantly escaping her, and two hit men who are determined to follow her everywhere to get a lead on Ranger.

This book was a nice change in pace, as rather than having Ranger help Stephanie, she got to help him. There’s just something about most books with romance in them that makes the female character seem weak and passive, and this book definitely helped to fight that. Other than that, not much else stands out. It was almost as enjoyable as High Five.