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

“Yes, but things at that place were getting dangerous—she was afraid they might hurt me—and she had to get me out of there. She couldn’t say goodbye to him, she just took me away. I don’t remember that first year too well—” He rubbed his thigh, almost as if he didn’t realize what he was doing.


“Yes.” He seemed surprised I should ask. I remembered a couple of things from when I was three and four, but other than time spent with my old lady’s men or in the hospital, I’d buried most other memories. “We traveled around a lot, and I couldn’t take anything but memories with me, so I made a point of remembering. A few years ago, Uncle Gunther figured out where we were living, and he…he quit that other place and came to us. That made Ma really nervous. If Uncle Gunther could find us, Deuce and his men could find us too. Uncle Gunther said no, but Ma still worried.”


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