Quinn Robertson is on the run with a five-year-old child that her sister Tabitha left in her care. Quinn is supposed to take Jubilee from her home in Maine to Washington, DC to her real father. But when Quinn realizes that someone is following her, she abandons her car, carrying Jubilee, and makes a run for it through the woods. She's trying to get to her brother August's home in Maryland and to safety. Malone Henderson finds Quinn and Jubilee in the woods and gets them to August's home. Malone is a member of HEART, a hostage rescue organization, and has been called in to help on this mission.

Other HEART members show up at August's home, and the journey begins for safely getting Jubilee to her real father, Boone Anderson, also a member of HEART. The bad guys just keep coming from every direction. Someone is trying to stop Quinn from making her delivery to Boone. And now Tabitha is also missing. With an envelope containing a birth certificate and a photo book, Quinn and HEART set out to untangle this mystery and get Jubilee to her real father. In the process, Quinn begins to question if she could have feelings for someone else ever again. She lost her husband to cancer three years ago and nothing has been the same since. But Malone Henderson seems to be the man to turn her life around.

This is my fifth mission with HEART and Shirlee McCoy's Mission: Rescue series. MYSTERY CHILD is a touching, inspirational story about lose and learning to live again. Quinn and Malone are both strong, realistic main characters, surrounded by equally strong supporting characters. Their journey to complete their mission, along with capturing the bad guys and keeping themselves alive, is filled with non-stop action, as well as tender moments of reflection about how God cares for us every dayy, even in our darkest moments. MYSTERY CHILD can be read as a stand-alone and is certainly a great read.