Book Tour: The Brat by Patricia Logan

Author: Patricia Logan

Title: The Brat

Series: Marine Bodyguard

Book: Three (Can be read as a standalone)

Pages or Words: 96,000 words

Categories: Contemporary Crime Fiction, Erotica, Fiction, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Thriller

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2130526.Patricia_Logan

Publisher: Patricia Logan

Cover Artist: JP Adkins Design (Jeff Adkins)

Charles Fordham III has been expelled from Oxford and sent home with his tail between his legs. The self-professed “brat” has always gotten away with things because of his father’s influence and money. Poor Chas is in for the surprise of his life in the form of a tall, well-muscled, former Marine bodyguard… but even more daunting days may lie ahead. Have his years abroad prepared him for the expectations of his father when he’s forced to live up to his legacy?

Tate Heston returns home from Iraq when his beloved career is cut short by an IED. He’s used to turning boys into men and then leading them into battle where sometimes the good guys lose. This makes him even more hesitant about taking on a job guarding a spoiled brat, but he believes he can probably do what he does best… make young Chas a man.

Not everyone wants to see the brat succeed in his father’s place. Things have been running just fine for years and the return of Charles Fordham III and the shake up his arrival causes, has his family’s enemies in a panic. But as the boy assumes his rightful place, Tate understands sometimes a man must take his fight to the enemy… regardless of battlefield… or boardroom.

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Chas whirled on Tate, stalking up to him, probably having decided that he was the whole problem. Hell, Tate was totally fine with that. Better he hate him than his father. Hate was easy to handle but he was really surprised when he stopped right in front of him and shouted at him.

“You have no right to tell me how I should talk to my father, you… you cretin!” he screamed.

Tate was only slightly surprised as spittle flew out of Chas’s mouth when he spoke and he raised his hand. Is he gonna…?

Tate reached up and stopped Chas’s slap inches from his cheek as he viciously swung his hand toward him. Tate managed to grasp Chas’s wrist, stopping the blow and the action brought the young man flush up against his body. For a few seconds their faces were inches from each other and with all of Chas’s rage, the way his chest heaved with anger, Tate inexplicably felt his cock harden in his jeans. His fury is magnificent. Tate didn’t know whether he should stop the kid or just bend him over his father’s desk and fuck him right then and there and get it over with. He let the thought slide through his mind for a few seconds as he stared into Chas’s magnificent angry amber-colored eyes. It’s probably not the right time… more’s the pity.

Tate hesitated only a second and then tore his gaze away from the man’s, bringing Chas’s arm down and then around the man’s side so that he was forced to turn his back on Tate. Chas cried out as Tate deftly brought his hand up between his shoulder blades, causing him to bend forward to take the pressure off or have his arm snapped in the process. A second later, Chas’s knees gave out and he dropped to his knees on the thick carpet to relieve the pressure on his arm. Tate bent over him, still holding Chas’s fingers up behind his back with one hand. He laid his hand on the back of the young man’s neck, pushing his forehead firmly to the floor with the other hand.

“Ah! You’re hurting me!” Chas gasped out, drooling down toward the carpet beneath him. His body was shuddering but all the fight had gone out of him and he suddenly went boneless as his body relaxed.

Tate leaned down to speak softly at his ear. “No hitting. No slapping. No getting physical of any sort. That clear?” Go ahead. Fight me, you little fucker. I’ll have your jeans around your ankles and my dick up your ass so fast, you won’t know what hit you.

A second later Chas gave an almost imperceptible nod. His chest was heaving and Tate thought he heard a sob come out of the man as he grunted in pain again.

“Okay,” Chas finally ground out through gritted teeth, “Let me up.”

International bestselling author Patricia Logan resides in Los Angeles, California. The author of several #1 bestselling erotic romances in English, Italian, French, and Spanish lives in a small house with a large family. When she’s not writing her next thriller romance, she’s watching her grandchildren grow up way too soon, and raising kids who make her proud every day. One of her favorite tasks is coaxing nose kisses from cats who insist on flopping on her keyboard while she types. Married to a wonderful man for 30 years, she counts herself lucky to be surrounded by people who love her and give her stories to tell every day.

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Today I’m welcoming Patricia Logan to chat about writing, life, and their current project. Welcome! Let’s talk a little about The Brat.

What inspired you to write this story?

I saw a photo of this young guy who just looked cocky and though I don’t always begin a book with a photo prompt, when I find one that speaks to me, I will write him into a story. In this case, I just knew he had to have a book and I contacted my cover artist and asked him to find this model. He found him and it turned out that Chas Fordham is one of my sexiest characters ever and it all began with a photo.

Is there a character you feel especially connected to? Why?

There is a secondary character in this story by the name of Jarrett Evans and as happens sometimes, when I began writing him, in all his snarky humor and inappropriate badness, I knew he was going to be the main character of the next book in the series. He spoke to me and he needs redemption pretty badly, so he’s the perfect good/bad guy that I love to write. I like writing stories where I can take a really bad guy and then flip him over to expose his soft underbelly and show that he actually does have a heart. Jarrett is one of those guys.

What was the hardest part of writing this?

Ironically, it was ending it. I had a really long period of writer’s block when I began this book back in September and I could only eek out a hundred words a few days when I am accustomed to writing 3,000 words a day. Once I found my momentum, I managed the last 50K words in two weeks which is crazy good for me. It turned out to be the second longest book I’ve ever written at nearly 100K words and I could have kept going but I wanted to save some for the next book which uses some of the same characters and is already in the outline stages.

Choose a favorite line or short passage. What do you like about it?

Once in a while, my characters speak to each other as if they are outside of my head. This exchange happened between Tate, my main character, and Jarrett, one of his Marine buddies and it wrote itself. I happened to like it a lot so here you go:

Jarrett finally laughed out loud. “Heston, you asshole, I’m gay too,” he said, “I just wanted to hear you say it.”

“You really are a motherfucker aren’t you?” Tate stated.

Jarrett chuckled. “I can say with some confidence that I truly am and ya ain’t the first one to tell me, Sarge.”

“Well, I never would have guessed, Evans,” Tate said, finally seeing the absolute humor in the whole conversation.

“Well, ya won’t catch me skippin’ in a spring parade wearin’ a sparkly pink thong but yeah, I suck a mean cock, Heston.”

Tate laughed out loud. “Son-of-a-bitch.”

“So I suppose we had this discussion not entirely because you wanted to tell me your history with the kid but because you are in fact, a pillow biter,” Evans continued.

Tate laughed. “Asshole.”

Tell us a little about any upcoming projects.

I am planning the next Marine Bodyguards book. It will be number 4 in the series and will feature my secondary character, Jarrett Evans, and a new character Thayne Wolfe. It is another MM mystery/thriller and I am very excited to start this one. I hope to have it finished in a couple months.