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

After the holiday, we’d flown up to Fall River with him and confronted the family. The brothers had stood stony-faced, but Mark assured me it was probably more because they didn’t like him than that they disapproved of their brother being gay. His Uncle Steve seemed supportive, but Kit’s mother hadn’t taken the news well. That had come as no surprise to us, since words she’d spoken during our wedding luncheon had given us to understand she didn’t look kindly on homosexuals. Her after-Christmas diatribe had resulted in Kit’s lips becoming a thin white line.


“You want to come back to Arlington with us?” Mark asked him, which caused Lilly to have a minor meltdown. The brothers hadn’t reacted well either.


Kit’s father calmed things down, assured us he had everything in hand, and suggested it might be best if we left.


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