SARATOGA (KRON) — You may not know his name, but you might recognize his chiseled physique.

Jason Baca is a romance cover model from the Bay Area.

After posing for more than 600 books, he’s decided to put his shirt back on and retire. Just like the book “Some Men’s Dreams,”

Baca has had quite a dreamy life gracing one romance novel cover after another.

In fact, the South Bay native has embraced more women and struck more seductive poses then any other romance cover model ever.

Yes, we know what you are thinking.

He has even surpassed the internationally known king of the genre, Fabio.

“I never wanted to do more then him, I just wanted to do my best,” Baca said.

Baca, with all of his fame and abs that could make most woman quiver, and men full of desire to trade places, is exceptionally humble.

“I work out a lot, eat clean. I have always worked out a lot,” he said.

Baca met with KRON4’s Terisa Estacio in Saratoga, where they had some fun, heading into the library, to look for some of his smouldering covers on the shelves.

“This one is from 2001,” he said. No one in the library recognized him. baca says he is rarely recognized, expect for one place.

“Airports, most people say, ‘I have seen you somewhere,’ but they can’t place where, and I don’t say anything,” Baca said.

For such a reticent renaissance man, Baca says he is breaking his silence talking to KRON4, because at the age of 45, he is retiring.

Baca says performing at this level is a full time job and after 10+ years, he says it is time to relax a bit.

“I will still work out, but I will work, just at my day job,” he said.

Throughout the years, between lovingly looking into another models eyes, or seemingly loss in a moment of bliss, Baca has maintained an office job.

He says for years, no one knew about the other steamy side of him.

“One day someone said, yeah, is that you and I was like, yeah.”

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