ONE FOR THE MONEY by Janet Evanovich

This is the first in the Stephanie Plum stories in which Stephanie becomes a

bail bondsman.  She meets Ranger a mysterious security/bondsman who teaches her about the business but he is not a large part of the story. In this story a cop named Morelli is wanted for shooting an unarmed man

and Stephanie is out to bring him in for ten thousand dollars.  Eventually,

she is able to apprehend him and also help to clear his name. 

WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES by Debbie Macomber

When Emily's daughter, Heather, tells her mother that she is not coming home for Christmas but intends to stay at Harvard to work and sutdy, Emily decides to travel across the country and surprise her daughter for Christmas.  When she arrives she finds that Heather did not intend to work and study but to take a motorcycle trip to Florida with a biker boyfriend.  Emily has traded her home with a Harvard professor who is trying to get away from Christmas and work on a textbook he is writing and she is unable to return home until her arrangement with him is over.  Meanwhile, Emily's friend, Faith, decides to pay a surprivse Christmas visit to Emily only to find that the professor is staying in Emily's house and Emily is across country.  Unable to find another place to stay she stays with the professor and they strike up a relationship.  The professor's brother checks in on him to satify his mother's concern and finds Emily occupying his brother's condo in Boston.  You guessed it.  They strike up a relationship, too.  Heather, finds the biker boy undesirable and flies home to Boston to be with her mother and they all live happily ever after.  This was a feel good story, just right for a very easy Christmas read.