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

“Hmm.” I resumed examining the paper I held. Another “suggestion” was to make the female protagonist into the type of woman who was weak, not only physically but emotionally—the type who depended on her male counterpart to rescue her from any and every predicament in which the pair found themselves. “In addition, she’s to be willing to believe lies told by a stronger, more worldly woman, thereby causing a good deal of angst?” I shook my head. Whose idiotic idea was that? “You really think this is what housewives want?”


“Our sales department has done its research, and all indicators are that yes, this is exactly what they want. Ballard House will give them that.”


I doubted that strongly, but I had no intention of haggling with him.


I read the last line and blew out an impatient breath. Hadn’t we gone over this last fall? They wanted a final say on the cover art.


Chapter 36