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…see.” I certainly hadn’t expected that, but now that I studied the boy’s features, I could see a resemblance, and not simply in the shape of his ears or the color of his eyes. There was something in the way…Joe…held himself that was very reminiscent of his father.


Mark, a father. He wasn’t the only one who was dumbfounded.


He leaned closer and whispered, “Is this going to make any difference about how you feel about me?”


“Did you really think it would?” I couldn’t help smiling at him. Foolish man.


“Oh, what? You’re going to tell me you always wanted to make love to a dad?”


He continued to stare at me, and I realized what a difficult day this must have been for him. To suddenly discover he had a child, especially when he’d always been so careful…I did wonder how that had happened.


“Truthfully? As long as you’re the dad, yes, I would.” I turned to the boy. “I’m Quinton Mann. It’s nice to meet you, Joe.”


Chapter 84