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

“Yeah.” He smiled and spoke a few words in the language. “That translates to once upon a time. Kinda. But like I said, I don’t know about the cat.”


BECAUSE OF THE traffic, it took almost twenty-five minutes before I pulled up in front of Theo’s sprawling house.


I got out of the car, paused at the trunk to retrieve the box that contained the laptop, and walked around to the curb. The kid hadn’t gotten out. I opened the door and leaned in. “Problem?”


His eyes behind the thick lenses of his glasses were enormous and scared. “I know this place.”


“Who?” Could the kid mean Delilah Carson, the party girl who’d been killed early in 2002?


I knew she’d moved in, but it had been some years after I’d moved out.


“She and Ma were in the same foster home, but she was like a real sister to Ma. She helped us get out of town when Uncle Gunther dis-I mean died, and she sent us money.”


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