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    A Marine and a Gentleman
    A Marine and a Gentleman
    A Marine and a Gentleman
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    A Marine and a Gentleman

    By Heather Long

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    Lieutenant Brenden Fitzpatrick is a dedicated Marine, loyal son, and devoted uncle, but he's lonely. When he went Marine, the rule was don't ask, don't tell. His brothers-in-arms pretty much didn't ask and didn't care. Watching so many friends settle into long-term relationships highlighted the absence of someone to come home to in his life. When his unit encourages him to give the 1Night Stand service a try, he asks for the impossible—a night with the one man he almost gave up the Marines for in the first place. A man he called best friend but let time and distance carry away.

    Liam Gardiner grew up on the same Boston block as his best friend, Brenden. Unlike Brenden, Liam always accepted that he was gay—a fact he didn't mind flaunting to all the bullies and naysayers in school. It got his ass kicked more than once, but Brenden always had his back, rescuing him time and time again, until the day Brenden left for the Marines. He missed his buddy—the crush he never confessed, lest it cost him the precious friendship—so when Madame Eve's invitation to meet Brenden arrived, Liam faces uncertainty for the first time.

    Life made them best friends, can Madame Eve help them become so much more?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDecadent Publishing
    Release dateFeb 7, 2013
    ISBN9781613334706
    A Marine and a Gentleman
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    Heather Long

    Heather Long is a USA TODAY bestselling author who likes long walks in the park, science fiction, superheroes, and Marines. Her books are filled with heroes and heroines tangled in romances as hot as her native Texas summertime.

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      A Marine and a Gentleman - Heather Long

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      A Marine and a Gentleman

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      Copyright © 2013 by Heather Long

      ISBN: 978-1-61333-470-6

      Cover art by Mina Carter

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      Chapter One

      Second Lieutenant Brenden Fitzpatrick didn’t pace. He didn’t fidget. He demonstrated none of the physical tics of discomfort—but he was uncomfortable. Three deployments to the Middle East—and an upcoming assignment to the Consulate in Yemen—gave him plenty of time to consider his options while standing in the psychologist’s office.

      You can sit down, you know. James Westwood leaned back in a chair, a notepad resting untouched on one knee and a pen in his hand.

      Of all the people he’d expected to run into during his interview with Captain Dexter, the doc hadn’t been on the list. Hell, he only accepted the captain’s invitation because they were old friends. Seeing what Luke built in Mike’s Place and visiting with retired members of his unit were more than worth the trip.

      I know. I prefer standing. I’ve been on planes for two days. Not a lot to do on a plane but clench his ass and hope the flyboys kept the damn thing in the air. He preferred boats for travel, not that anyone asked. He could swim ten miles if the occasion called for it.

      "We haven’t talked in a while. How

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