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

“I’ll be right here.” I rested my hands on his shoulders. “I’m not going anywhere.”


He leaned against me for a minute before he dashed into the bathroom, the bear clutched in his arms.


I straightened and studied the bed. It looked like a battlefield. I smoothed the sheets and comforter and folded them back, waiting for my kid to finish in the bathroom.


When he returned, he laid Gunther, the bear, down on the bed. Once he was feeling more comfortable, I’d ask him about the bear’s name.


“No.” He got under the covers. “Well…Ma used to tell me stories sometimes.” His expression was wistful, and all I could think to do was pat his shoulder. My old lady had usually been too bombed to string together a coherent sentence.


I could do this. “Are you comfortable?”


“Yes, thank you.” He pulled the bear against him.


“Okay. I’m going to tell you a story.”


Chapter 81