While Logan’s attention was elsewhere, Dani studied him. His dark brown hair—now cut close in the military style—suited him. In their SEAL days, he and her husband had worn their hair longer to help them blend in with the Afghan people. His black leather jacket stretched over broad shoulders; his jeans encased long legs she was certain rippled with muscles.

Logan was still eye candy. That sure hadn’t changed. A little sigh escaped her lips. He must have heard because his dark brown eyes turned her way and he raised a questioning brow. Strangely, the arrogant gesture put her at ease. He was still the Logan she’d once known and liked. She walked down the steps.

“Nice bike. What is it?”

He moved next to her and eyed the motorcycle with a fond smile. “A Harley-Davidson V-Rod Muscle.” His gaze captured hers, and he grinned. “It’s very fast.”

And dangerous. Like him. She remembered he’d always been like this. Intense and focused.


The above is an excerpt from CRAZY FOR HER, due out September 1st. My hero is tall, dark, and handsome, and as I thought about that, I wondered about the origin of the phrase. In researching it, there are several theories.

One of the earliest uses in print is from The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 1833, and it actually referred to a woman.

Hester now looked at her aunt, who was the very reverse of what she had imagined: she had always thought she would be like her father, and fancied a tall, dark, and handsome face.

Although used in women’s fiction in the early 1900s to describe a romantic hero, the phrase really became popular because of the 1941 film, Tall, Dark, and Handsome, starring a swoon-worthy Cesar Romero as a Robin Hoodish gangster.

I don’t think the dark in tall, dark, and handsome refers to a man’s skin, or eyes, or hair. I think it’s a reference to a mysterious quality—something unexplainable that draws the eye to any man possessing that elusive something.

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