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

“I understand why you had to leave like that. One of Dr. Gautier’s assistants spilled the beans about what Dr. G. was up to. The good doctor wasn’t happy when word got out, let me tell you.”


“I can imagine. Was the assistant fired?”


Gunther shrugged, but he looked uneasy. “I guess.” He went to her and cupped her cheeks. She thought he was going to kiss her, but then he dropped his hands. “I…uh…I have to tell you what happened to Phillips. Why you don’t have to worry about him.” He ran both hands through his hair, leaving it disheveled. “The thing is, I don’t want you to think badly of me.”


“Gunther.” This time she was the one who cupped his cheek. “I never would.”


“Not even after I tell you the reason Phillips was unable to give Deuce that information was because Phillips was dead? That I killed him?”


“Gunther!” She couldn’t catch her breath. This kind, gentle man…What had she done to him?


Chapter 16