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 smiled. Not that they’d say it to his face, and not just because his family had been part of the Woody Draw community for more than a hundred years. He was a Marine—the fact he’d left the service almost fifteen years before made no difference; he’d always be a Marine—and the good people of Woody Draw respected that.


The bell above the door jingled as it opened, and Deuce gazed up. His smile broadened to a grin at the sight of the two men who entered, crossed to the counter, and hoisted themselves onto the stools in front of him.


“Well, look what the cat dragged in.” Deuce didn’t bother asking what he could get for them, just filled two ceramic mugs with coffee brewed from beans Fox’s Grocers had been providing the diner since they’d both opened back in the 1880s.


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