It is always a nice day for a cowboy wedding…..Cora Preston is trying to make the best wedding happen for her clients even though every fiber in her body is telling her she will fail. She has worked hard to let go of the negative feelings she has for herself and her abilities but after so many years, it is easy to fall back into her old trappings. She has to do better, for her sister and the company, for her son and for herself. But can she trust herself to let success come without automatically expecting the worst?

Shane Tyler is a fixer, he fixes his ranch, his siblings, his mother. The one thing he couldn’t fix has haunted him is a secret from when he was 12 years old. When the pretty new wedding planner shows up at their ranch to help his Mom with her marriage he figures out a way to get this wedding stopped once and for all.

Cora and Shane are both coming into this with the same sort of back issues in their lives but from completely different places. Cora has nothing but fixers in her life while Shane has nothing but people needing saved in his. Or so they both think. On the wedding front, Shane wants to get his mother to see the man she wants to marry is wrong for her and Cora does everything in her power to make Shane see he is wrong. Can they work together to prove their respective points, while navigating this slippery slope, despite being wildly attracted to each other?

I have been a fan of Nicole Helm’s writing for a while now and this one certainly doesn’t disappoint earning 4 ½ stars. I’m usually pretty good at figuring out a storyline and I was greatly relieved to see that one point I was sure would happen, did not. Cora and Shane though both appearing confident in themselves were very much the opposite and I liked the way they both realized they needed to make that change in themselves. Moms definitely do know best always, even flawed ones like Cora and Deb Tyler doesn’t miss a trick. Throw in the awesome Grandma Maisey, her sword collection and a possible love connection with Skeet in the future (please please) and this book is wonderfully all family.

I received an advance copy from Netgalley without any expectation for review. Any and all opinions expressed are my own. Another great read from Ms Helm and I can’t wait to read the next chapter(s) to come in Gracely, Colorado.

This story is an intense and emotional read, with well-crafted, complex characters, that seem so genuine with all their flaws and contradictions.
Shane, Cora and 12-year-old Micah (the heroine’s son) just stole my heart. Steady, reliable and an honorable man, yet sporting some psychological scars, Shane is the perfect counterpoint to Cora’s wounded soul. And his innate kindness and softness are so sexy…
I knew Cora from the previous stories in the Mile High series and her growth as a character surprised and humbled me. What a fantastic female character Nicole Helm wrote! It’s great how serious issues such as domestic violence and teen pregnancy, which had been handled previously, are still part of the character, but don’t define her or overwhelm the story – Cora is a vibrant woman, sexually active, sensual and flirtatious in a very natural way.
Micah is a wonderful preteen, with the right amount of sullenness and sweetness. I loved how Shane and the Tylers adopted him immediately, as the Mile High team had done, but with some subtle yet important differences.
I was founding this story a bit slow in the beginning, but I was then completely hooked by it; the subtlety of the sparks of attraction between ever responsible Shane and Cora, Shane’s initial ambivalence towards the single mom and a bunch of super emotional scenes, all against the background of the beautiful Colorado landscape, make this a very compelling read.
Helm’s tendency to convey (sometimes not that) subliminal messages through her characters’ lines is rather downsized here or feels more natural than in other of her stories.
Now I’m hoping that Shane’s siblings and mother will feature in future books, because Boone and Gavin in particular hold great promise as characters and I’d really like to know more about Deb and Ben.

Loved this book. Even though it dealt with some difficult issues, it was a fun read.

I liked the introduction to the family, and am looking forward to reading the rest of this series of books.

Shane's mother catches on to everything, nothing gets passed that woman, "...she bent over to grab something from inside the car, and, yes, very . . . formfitting. “Did you just check out my wedding planner?” Shane likes to give warnings, “yeah,” he admitted, pulling her close again . “And I’m about to be very ungentlemanly.” I liked this book, I fell in love with Shane.