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

He grinned at me. “If you say so, Mark.”


WE STILL HAD A few hours of daylight left when I drove the WGES pickup down 10th Street NW. I let it idle just outside the gates that blocked the driveway to Gautier’s DC building. It had been a federal style row house at one time. Now, though…Ugliest fucking building I had ever seen.


Going by the neighboring houses, any grace and class it had once possessed had been erased from it. The brick had been covered by stucco, the wrought iron railing that had framed the elegant little staircase had been replaced by cinder blocks, and the windows were all covered with metal shutters. The house that had once adjoined the property had been torn down and replaced by a broad driveway that led to the rear of the grounds.


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