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

“She didn’t talk to me about it. I don’t even know if she said anything to Sweets.”


He opened the drawer to his desk, withdrew a bulky leather envelope, and slid it across the desk. “Aside from a few bequests, she left the majority of her estate to you. The condo…that wasn’t in her name. The owner insisted on keeping everything, even if it was pink, so the boys and I got into the condo before he changed the locks and gathered up what we could of her personal belongings.”


“It doesn’t matter.” Something about that sounded off, but Babe was too depressed and distressed to try to figure it out. “We can’t take anything with us.” She took the envelope and opened it. There was a handful of credit cards, but it was the amount of cash it held that made her gasp and raise her gaze to stare wide-eyed at Charles.


Chapter 28