An abducted child. A desperate mother. A secretive father.
When her four-year-old son is kidnapped, a stay-at-home mother reactivates her hidden skills to mount a rescue operation. Will the kidnapping drive her to the edge?
Phoebe’s Fears
Office manager Phoebe O’Tierney’s decision to help a single mother earn some childcare income ends up putting her son in grave danger when he is abducted in broad daylight.
The search and rescue would’ve been like looking for a needle in a haystack, but the human traffickers don’t realize that Phoebe has a powerful magnet in the form of connections in high places at Mendenhall Retreat where she works.
Keenan’s Call
There’s much former Special Forces soldier Keenan O’Tierney wants to tell his wife but can’t due to Mendenhall Security company policy. He believes that someone in his working past is exacting revenge on his family.
He needn’t have worried about keeping secrets because Phoebe has come to the same conclusion. When Keenan realizes that, he joins her in her mission to rescue their son.
Tropes/Themes:
- Child Abduction
- Vendetta
- Human Trafficking
- Married Life
- Husband and Wife Relationship
- Teamwork
- Mountain Retreat
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Metro Atlanta, Georgia
Author’s Note: Going Once, Going Twice is in my Guardian Sweethearts series of Christian suspense stories that take place in between other books in my story world. Therefore the same books are both prequels and sequels or preludes and postludes. Going Once, Going Twice begins six years after Reach for Me (Vacation Sweethearts Book 2) ends, and ends before Esperanza Diaz-Mendenhall’s own story begins.
In Reach for Me, a Christian romance novel with a side of suspense, Phoebe meets Keenan at the mountaintop Mendenhall Retreat while they are both in the valleys of their lives. Read Reach for Me to find out how they fall in love.
Publisher’s Note: A novella edition of Going Once, Going Twice debuted in the 12-author Don’t Blink anthology that was published on October 7, 2025.
