I am delighted to be able to share my review with you today for The Secret Cove in Croatia by Julie Caplin. My thanks to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for my spot on the tour and for organising a e-copy of this fabulous book.

Let’s have a look and see what it’s all about…

Sail away to beautiful Croatia for summer sun, sparkling turquoise seas and a holiday romance that’s forever…

When no-nonsense, down-to-earth Maddie Wilcox is offered the chance to work on a luxury yacht for the summer, she can’t say no. Yes she’ll be waiting on the posh guests… But island-hopping around the Adriatic sea will more than make up for it – especially when Nick, her best friend Nina’s brother, is one of them.

Sparks fly when they meet on board and Maddie can’t believe self-entitled jerk Nick is really related to Nina.

But in a secret, picture-perfect cove, away from the real world, Maddie and Nick discover they might have more in common than they realise…

This is the 5th book in the Romantic Escapes Series, and I can see what it has been such a popular series withother readers. I have not read the previous books, but I can say I really want to now!

If you could sail away on a luxury yacht on the beautiful Croatian coast, would you? This is exactly what Maddie Wilcox did! She doesn’t mind that she will be part of the crew waiting on the posh guests that have hired the yacht, after all, she will get the chance to meet her best friends brother. At least she will know someone that she can chat to, right…?

If you are looking for a superb summer read then this one should be on your radar. The guests seem shallow and with no real substance, but the real star of the show is Maddie. Like me, she got a real eye-opener to the way that fame has gone to the heads of some people. Thank goodness that other guests can remember where their roots are and how to treat people!

Nick and Maddie should get on because he is the brother to her friend. While they don’t exactly hit it off there is a good amount of cheeky tension and a spark or two between them. Nick is on board with the willowy model Tara, and he is a sheep farmer. Along with these two guests, there are others who are memorable for all their own reasons. Some were fabulous and others, well, the least said about them the better!

The author really has done a stunning job of describing the setting, the beautiful arbours, markets, food and, scenery, they are full of vibrant details.

The author has included some near misses, misunderstandings and erm a yucky moment that just fit wonderfully into the drama of her story. A story that I was completely able to immerse myself in and I adored every sun-kissed moment.

It is one I would definitely recommend.

ules Wake announced at the age of ten that she planned to be a writer. Along the way she was diverted by the glamorous world of PR and worked on many luxury brands, taking journalists on press trips to awful places like Turin, Milan, Geneva, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam and occasionally losing the odd member of the press in an airport. This proved fabulous training for writing novels as it provided her with the opportunity to eat amazing food, drink free alcohol, hone her writing skills on press releases and to research European cities for her books.

She writes best-selling warm-hearted contemporary fiction for HarperImpulse.

Under her pen name, Julie Caplin, her twelfth novel, The Secret Cove in Croatia published in ebook format this July.

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