Playing For Keeps = a mashup of Hugh Jackman and Kevin Nash
Going For It = Vin Diesel
Love By Design = Josh Holloway (of Lost fame)
About the time I was thinking of writing a sexy short titled Real Men Don't Drink Appletinis, there was a TV show on the air called Stars Earn Stripes. Celebrities were paired up with a military/police personnel and competed in training missions.
I immediately fell in love with Grady Powell, a former Green Beret who was paired up with WWE wrestler Eva Torres.
And thus Grady O'Flynn was born. I couldn't help but keep his first name and I made him a Navy SEAL.
Here is a little snippet from Real Men Don't Drink Appletinis
Navy SEAL Grady O’Flynn wasn’t often knocked back on his
heels but the bombshell in front of him knocked him back and rocked his world.
She reminded him of a movie starlet from the Forties. All curves and all sass.
And those baby blues? Man, they nearly had him babbling like an infant.
“So what do you do for a living?”
Amused by her obvious deflection, he’d decided to let his
question go unanswered since he couldn’t be an open book either. He didn’t want
to lie but he couldn’t reveal who he was or why he was in New York City. “I’m
on extended leave.”
“What does that mean?”
“I’m between assignments.” He took a sip of scotch.
“Am I going to have to waterboard you for information?”
Grady nearly spit out his drink but recovered quickly with,
“There are far more pleasurable ways to get information.”
“Ooo.”
God, he loved the way her
ruby lips formed an O. He wouldn’t take the thought a step further and
fantasize about what that mouth could do to him. 
