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Cowboys, Ranching and Catching Your Second Wind

People always ask where I find inspiration for my characters. And I always try to play it coy. The truth is, I usually have no idea. I don’t base characters on people I know, or professions I’m all that expert in. In fact, I sometimes have little understanding of what I have my hero or heroine do for a living. In those cases, I use a lot of research and imagination. That’s the case with the cowboy hero in Second Wind.

Opposite Attractions

Remember the old commercial where a group of women in an office gather at a window looking over a construction site? As the minute hand on the clock reaches a certain time, a hunky guy whips off his tee-shirt and breaks out an icy Diet Coke and guzzles it. A light sheen of sweat covered rippling pecs, bared to the afternoon sun, and stubble covered his jaw. White teeth stood out against bronzed skin, and the guy just oozed sex. Every woman standing at the window—every woman watching the commercial—wanted to be that Coke can, caressed by his tongue and lips and held against his hot skin.

Wow! I get all hot and bothered just thinking about the ad, which was for … oh, yeah. Coke.