Special Delivery

Maxine Carter is currently the best bonded courier working in the Pacific Rim. There's no assignment she won't do, because she doesn't want to stop moving. If she does, she'll remember that the child she once went home to is now gone, killed in a terrible accident, and that her marriage has fallen apart. But Maxine's next case isn't transporting evidence, irreplaceable jewels, or delicate corporate secrets, it's delivering 15-year-old Alice Cantwell from her father in China to her mother in the U.S. -- the result of a bitter, twisted custody battle. Alice, a spoiled brat, does not want to return to a mother she doesn't know. She manages to exasperate and challenge Max, but the two find themselves bonding even as they want to kill each other. Alice even manages to manipulate Max's reconciliation with her ex-husband. When Max realizes there's a trap set up for her and Alice when they reach the States, it's up to Max to keep Alice safe, and also ultimately helps her believe that the reason her mother never stopped fighting for her was because of a never-ending love that still awaits.