For this week’s Inspired By, we are featuring Kate Deveaux, and her newest release, Sail Away With Me.(Out December 1)  A sizzling shipboard romance– Jody throws caution to the wind as she lets go of her inhibitions and indulges in one magnificent week of pleasure.  Passions surge, lovers tangle and two lives will never be the same again. 

Here, Kate has shared her top five books that inspired her most while writing her latest book, Sail Away With Me, out now:

 

Sex In The City by Candace Bushnell

A true New Yorker shares the shocking and brilliantly, hilarious mating habits in the city that never sleeps.  With essays drawn from her witty column in the New York Observer, meet Carrie and her young and beautiful best friends while they take on the city’ s nightlife and men.

 

The Beach Club  Elin Hilderbrand

An engrossing, sexy novel that captivates summer love and the love of summer.  

 

Heat Waves by Jill Marie Landis

After facing betrayel by her first love and fiance, Private Investigator Kat Vargas has sworn to never be close to anyone again.  a prospective new client shows up at the door, and Kat finds herself helping to bring a family back together, and can’t help but to find love again.

 

Blue Eyed Devil  Lisa Kleypass

 When an heiress marries a man her family disaproves of, her life is set on a new course. Two years later she returns home, to a family enemy that is the last person she needs darkening her door, or setting her soul on fire.

 

Champagne Rules Susan Lyons

Jaxon makes all of Suzannes wildest dreams come true throughout their brief passionate affair.  Four years later, Suzanne is ready to break every rule in the book for him.

 

P.S. Don’t forget to check out the sexy  Pinterest Board inspired by Sail Away With Me  here.