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

He waved it away. “I’ve got more degrees than you could shake a stick at. I chose one and told her I’d decided to pursue it. Of course I had to sign another nondisclosure agreement.” He gave her a wry grin. “It’s standard for her. Anyway, she thinks I’m going to be doing work in mechanical engineering.”


“But she knows about us?” Babe wasn’t sure if she wanted to make that a question or a statement.


“Jennie, she has no idea we were together.”


“Did you think the reason I wanted to keep some distance between us was because I was ashamed of you?”


She worried her lower lip. After that first time in the dining hall, he’d said they should be careful, and while she’d been certain he cared about her…there had been that boy in high school who’d thought she’d be willing to accept whatever crumbs of affection he was willing to give her because she was a foster kid…


Chapter 17