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

“Uh…there’s one other thing, Dad. Ma said I shouldn’t let go of the bear, because she put a flash drive in him. Uncle Gunther had given it to her, and according to him, it’s supposed to have all my records on it.”


“Okay, this will call for a little surgery.” And I didn’t have my knife.


“Here, babe.” Quinn handed me a pair of scissors.


Joe’s expression tightened a little, but he didn’t fall apart as he had at Theo’s. Sure he wouldn’t. He was my kid, after all.


“Thanks.” I snipped the surgical stitches until I had a space of a couple of inches. “Joe, your hands are smaller than mine. I want you to reach in and feel around, see if you can find the flash drive.”


It didn’t take long before he withdrew his hand and held up the flash drive in triumph.


“Can I see what’s on it?” Joe asked.


“Shut off the frying pan, would you?” I asked Quinn.


He did as I asked, and the three of us trooped into my study.


Chapter 98