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,” he said when I was finished. The baby grunted and his face turned red, and then he started fussing again. Matheson slipped a hand under the blanket. “Uh-oh. Someone needs a diaper change.” He looked at me uncertainly. “Sorry, sir.”


“Go ahead, I’ll come with you.” I’d seen my share of revolting things. I could deal with a baby getting his diaper changed.


I took the cup of coffee and followed Matheson into his son’s bedroom. He put the baby on the changing table and continued talking as he stripped down his son, took out a handful of wet wipes, and set about changing the diaper. “I haven’t heard of Pandora Gautier, or even this Biederman Institute.”


“The Boss will give you the time you need to look into her.”


“We don’t know at this point.” Well, I didn’t know, and I didn’t like it. “I’ll send the information from my computer to yours after I get home.”


He nodded. “I’ll look into it first thing in the morning.”


Chapter 71