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

ON MARCH 14, 1994, Seventy-four V1 was born. He was a sweet-tempered baby boy with a head of fuzzy brown hair, eyes that were hazel once the vague blue of newborns faded, and ears that were startlingly prominent. He also had syndactyly—cute little webbed toes—and Babe wondered if he got that from his mother or his father.


Although she knew better—this wasn’t her baby—Babe fell in love with him. As with Cilla and Marianne, she named him, and when no one was around, she called him Davy.


Babe held her breath as each month passed, expecting one of Davy’s organs to fail. That was what had happened to the other babies she’d cared for, but he was healthier than any of them, and she began to relax.


She talked to Gunther—and only Gunther—about him. “He’s brilliant, Gunther.”


“Are you sure you’re not biased?”


“Well, maybe just a little.” But she didn’t believe that.


Chapter 11