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, sir. He said it’s more than his life is worth otherwise, and that he hadn’t signed on for the kind of shit that went down yesterday. He also informed me he hadn’t bargained on a concussion on top of everything else—”


“Everything else?” Could this mean he’d been involved with Jeanette Van Orden’s death as well? “Do he or either of the other two have scratch marks, or did any of them have a chunk of flesh missing from their anatomy?”


“I don’t think so. All three of them were wearing hospital gowns, and I didn’t see any bandages on their arms.”


“Okay, I’ll want you to go down to Medical and talk to her about it. Now, did Sleeping Beauty have anything else to add?”


“Only that this was supposed to be a cushy job taking care of a batty old woman. Those were his words, sir, and I believe he was referring to his employer. As soon as he realized what he’d said, he clammed up. Other than that, nothing.”


Chapter 108