Goodreads asked Cate Meredith:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Cate Meredith Crash Into You had a lot of different points of inspiration. I knew I wanted to write a small town romance, but I wanted it to be really atypical. I thought a plane crash would be a really interesting, traumatic way to bring a character to a small town.

Since my heart will always live in Washington D.C., and I love political intrigue, I wanted to bring just a tiny bit of that into the story. I suspect that every romantic suspense I ever write will have a little of political intrigue in it.

And the scandal at Abu Ghraib certainly played into the storyline. I was interested to know what would happen to someone in the aftermath of a huge torture scandal.

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