In 2002, Mark Vincent, onetime senior special agent, ran into John, a troubled little boy, at a local McDonald’s. Concerned, although it wasn’t his business, he gave the kid his business card and left. Three years later, Mark is director of his department at the WBIS and married to Quinton Mann, the former CIA spook who now writes spy novels. They’ve settled into a life of quiet domesticity and are even considering adopting a cat. All this changes when John, now using another name, barrels into Mark’s life with a secret no one expects and on the run from an organization that wants him despite the collateral damage. What will Mark, the man known as “the best” in the intelligence community, do when he learns what this secret is? Will it affect his relationship with Quinn? And how complicated are things going to get when Mark decides to get involved?

Mann of My Dreams Book 5: Complications

A nurse sat there reading a book. She looked up when Babe entered. “Can I help you?”


“Yes. I mean I guess so.” They hadn’t really told her very much.


“I’m Petra. Thank God you’re here. Did they have you sign the nondisclosure agreement?”


“Yes.” They hadn’t given her much choice in the matter, but that afternoon it hadn’t seemed a big deal.


“These babies won’t last much longer, and they’ll be coming to take them away. Frankly, I’ll be relieved. I can’t deal with more of them dying.”


She went on as if Babe hadn’t spoken. “It’s a shame Dr. Gautier tries to keep them going for so long. She seems to think one more drug…one more surgery…and she’ll be on track for her latest project.”


“Dr. Gautier is a genius. Finchley will be the first one to tell you that. She plans to develop a cadre of geniuses.”


“Don’t their mothers have anything to say about it?”


Chapter 8