This story has great bones. The problem is the author made Lily too whiney and so hung up it was hard to like her. Brandon wasn't much better. Much of their internal monologue should be cut out.

Loved this book and the author's writing. Her description of the setting is so vivid that I could visualize it. The book has a great storyline. I recommend if you enjoy good romance books.

I'm neutral about this book. The positive would be the beautiful nature all around them and how the author did such a good job of letting me visualize it. The negative would be all the whining that both Brandon and Lilly did. Brandon whined constantly about how he had to fix what his dad ruined. And Lilly whined about the life she was dealt. They both take on responsibility that wasn't asked of them and then complain when it doesn't work out.

I really enjoyed this book which looks to be the first book in a series about 3 brothers who own a Mile High adventure company close to the city of Graceley, Colorado.

This book stars the oldest brother, Brandon who was a whistle blower of sorts for his father's mining business. The company went belly up when his father died and now the brothers run the adventure company. However, the city of Graceley hates the brothers mostly because they closed the mine and everyone lost their job.

Brandon is forced by his brothers to hire a PR wiz to help with promoting the company and help work with the businesses left in Graceley. They end up hiring Lily who is the eldest too and she is the responsible one for her sister and nephew. They live in Gracely and Lily needs a job near the town to stay and take care of her sister.

This story is mostly about Mile High the brothers business and Lily's interactions related to the brothers and business. We hardly see the sister and nephew except in a few scenes. I was expecting to see more of Lily's life with them.

Of the brothers Brandon is the grumpy and anti romance brother. So if you like grumpy, hunky guys well you will love B. Once he starts opening up to Lilly is when this story really becomes a lot of fun. Interpersed in this story are several characters I wanted to learn more about and it kept me reading as I wanted to solve the mysteries of who they were or where they were.

I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect with ‘Need You Now’, since small-town stories can be charming as they can be vicious depending on the genre that I actually get into. But Nicole Helm has written quite a heartfelt one about a man who’s trying his hardest to establish his business in a town that hates him and his brothers and a woman whose family burdens lie squarely on her shoulders, mirroring reality closely in such a way that their situation is a relatable one. I felt for the Evans brothers as they cleaned up the mess their good-for-nothing father left them as much as I felt Lilly’s frustration at being trapped as the provider of a family that’s more broken than complete. Both Brandon and Lilly were hard on themselves in a way that made them the harshest critics of their own circumstances in a way I could definitely understand, as Helm makes both these characters face some hard truths about themselves.

It’s slow-going (with a lovely slow-burn) as Helm brings some nuanced emotions and well-timed humour into a prickly relationship but I genuinely enjoyed the rounds that Brandon and Lilly engaged in as they argued constantly over how to get Mile High Adventures up and on the map once more. Their disagreements were not only funny, but served to amp up the tension between them, which was always a fun way of getting them closer without both parties realising how much their mutual attraction had grown. Before I knew it, half the book was gone with Brandon/Lilly finding themselves in awkward situations until it all, well, explodes.

But as always, it gets worse before it gets better, business in town declines and Lilly/Brandon hit a very rough patch in their relationship. I did think Lilly tended to severely over-react in several parts because of her own issues, second-guessing everything and her lashing out seemed unjustified as she judged Brandon through these black-coloured lenses of her past. Her irrational behaviour towards the end was over the top as she only looked to protect herself, which made her harder to like when she selfishly refused to give Brandon a chance for anything and pretty much eviscerated him where it hurt the most.

The end of the road (read: the end of the book) came sooner than I thought and the curtain fell on Lilly/Brandon with a HFN ending, which is probably the most realistic one to expect in this case. Yet Mile High Adventures has barely gotten off the ground and Helm seems to promise more to come despite this rather abrupt conclusion.