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

“Not yet.” We were going back to DC—I had one more stop to make. “Get in.”


The kid sat beside me and buckled up. By rights he should have been in the backseat, but if anything happened, I needed to be able to hustle him out of the car fast.


Paranoid? Maybe. Didn’t mean someone wasn’t out to get him.


“Thank you for the Big Mac and the clothes and the computer.”


“Not a problem. You always travel this light?”


“Ma…” He swallowed. “She taught me to keep just what I needed in my backpack, that if we had to go, we’d have to go fast and leave everything else behind.”


“Yes.” He stared out the passenger window.


“You know she wasn’t your biological mother.”


He nodded. “She told me a long time ago. That doesn’t matter. She loved me, and she always kept me safe.”


“How long have they been after you?” I scanned the area, and then put the car in gear and drove out of the parking lot.


Chapter 66