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

Instead, I discovered something that had me chuckling, and I decided Mark had to have this as well. I picked up not quite the meanest-looking T-Rex I’d ever seen and ran a finger over its head and down its neck and back to the polka dot undershorts that covered its rump. Yes, Mark was going to love the hell out of this.


Holding on to the little stuffed dinosaur, I walked down another aisle, and finally found something that would be perfect for Gregor: an ebony inlaid rosewood box of dominos. It would provide him and Mother with a way to pass the time in the evening.


About twenty minutes later, the shopkeeper summoned me to the front counter and showed me what he had done, then packed up the wind chimes and rang up the new purchases.


“Thank you again,” I said. We shook hands, and I returned to my hotel and placed the gifts in my carry-on.


Chapter 39