Love a fun cowboy romance. Shane is the way men should be, strong, sensitive, loving and even nurturing. Cora's son needs that influence and so does she. Having struggled with abuse they need someone to help them be strong without pity. Cora comes from the Mile High romance series as Lilly's sister and we've seen her struggle as a single mom to a preteen. It was nice to see Cora get a decent man and catch up with the Mile High crew. Not necessary to read the series to enjoy her story. My copy came through Netgalley and my review written voluntarily.

I don't blame Cora for passing the buck.

It seems to me that having a pre-teen should have made her grow up a long time ago.

Charming.

Er, those seem like a lot of red flags.

Yeah, Boone doesn't exactly have an office job.

What is wrong, Micah?

Hey, what's wrong with art?

Whoa, Gavin. Your mom is not a Mossad agent.

His grandma has a sword collection? Remind me not to cross her.

I talk to myself, that's for sure.

I'm guessing her mom was a mistress?

I hate the smell of coffee, but I'm glad I don't have trauma attached to the smell.

I love everything about Micah's first day on the job.

I hope you feel better soon, Lou.

It's good that Shane is teaching Micah how to be a man.

It's sweet how her friends are willing to take her son on an outing so she can have a date.

Is she expecting him to share all his secrets without telling him something in return?

What a witch his ex was.

That's a lot of guilt for the poor man to carry around.

I'm glad he and Ben had that talk, specifically at his father's grave. It felt like his dad was a part of it, giving his blessing.

Boone messed up.

She's ending things before he can, expect he isn't going to.

Micah is more mature than three grown-ups combined.

Mmhmm. "Practical reasons". Sure.

I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Cora and her twelve year old son are new in Gracely, Colorado. She’s starting out in a new business, a wedding planning company called Mile High Weddings. Her first job is for a wealthy ranch owner, Deb Tyler. She has things under control until she meets Deb’s handsome, oldest son, Shane, who is not in favor of his mother’s wedding. Cora has problems with her own son, problems with the Tyler sibling’s relationships, problems in her and Shane’s relationship and secrets that they all have make a rock-em, sock-em emotional story! Great characters make this an engaging and sincere read that is sure to delight all lovers of contemporary romance.

A Nice Day for a Cowboy Wedding by Nicole Helm will be published by Zebra, an imprint of Kensington Books on August 28, 2018. An egalley of this book was made available by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

What a great story!! We met Cora in the other Mile High books (this can totally be read as a stand alone) and I was excited to read her story.

Cora was in an abusive relationship for years and is finally feeling like she is in a good place. Her relationship with her son is good and she is starting a new business. And she has sworn off men for good. So when she meets Shane, the son of her first client, she tries her best to ignore his good looks and the friendship he easily forms with her son. Shane has his hands full trying to stop his mom's wedding and dealing with all of his siblings problems. When he meets Cora he tries hard to ignore the beautiful, sassy wedding planner.

Soon they can't ignore each other or the steamy feelings they have but both have a lot of baggage. I really loved this! There are a lot of great secondary characters here that I hope we will soon hear more about!!

This was an amazing book. I love the way this talented author writes. The story flows seamlessly. It has wonderful, flawed, believable characters. I loved Shane and Cora along with the rest of the loveable characters. It is the story about finding strength in the midst of self doubt. It is a story about trusting yourself enough to let yourself love and to be loved. I would definitely recommend this book and this author.

I received a free, advanced copy of this book from NetGalley.com. This is my unbaised and voluntary review.

With the help of her older sister Lilly, Cora Preston fled with her 12 year old son, Micah, from his abusive father in Denver, to Gracely. Lilly is now married with twins and is the PR specialist of her husband's business, Mile High Adventures. Cora was tasked to start Mile High Weddings, a wedding planning division of Mile High Adventures. Her first customer is ranch owner, Deb Tyler, who after being a widow for a long time, is marrying again. However, the man she is marrying is 10 years her junior and her children don't trust him. The oldest son and ranch foreman, Shane, will do anything he can to stop the wedding. Both Cora and Micah are suffering from the aftermath of many years of abuse, but don't want anyone else to know. When Micah gets kicked out of basketball camp, Deb offers Cora the chance to have Micah help on the ranch. Micah falls in love with the horses, and the Tyler family. Both Cora and Shane are both fighting demons of their past. Will they find their partner in the other?

This is the fourth book in the series, but I read it as a stand alone. Since there was no Prologue or short synopsis of what had happened in the first book, which was Lilly and Brandon's story, I was left guessing if Cora's past had been revealed previously, or the elusions of what her ex had done, was on purpose, so it could be revealed slowly. The characters are adeptly developed and the conflicts of family dynamics and secrets are artfully explored.

I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Almost a 5 star rating! I like how the family dynamics were weaved within this story. I think that it’s important for there to be more guys out there like Shane that accept that they aren’t just dating the woman, they are dating her child(ren) too.

I know that a big issue with Cora’s character was her insecurity with herself and her relationship with others, but I kind of got tired about reading about inability to think and act for herself. Cora needs to loosen her apron strings on Micah pretty soon- I have a 13 year old boy and they need to have some space and freedom without their mom “s-mothering” them.

This was a really good read, and it was nice to get to see Cora get her HEA, plus be introduced to another set of siblings, who will hopefully get their own stories. Big fan of this author...would love to see skeet and Shanes grandmother get together (hint hint Ms Helm lol)

Not too much of The Mountain High guys. I wonder if this book is a bridge for a new series with Shane's siblings.
Cora has a lot of baggage, but Shane sea right through it to the heart of her.

Nicole Helm has become a favourite, and her heroes are easy to love and sometimes hard to handle. After reading A Nice Day for a Cowboy Wedding, I realised I’ve missed a series along the way, and will now need to return to the beginning of the Mile High romances to familiarise myself with the other characters.

That said, this was a fabulous read and typical of Ms Helm’s easy writing style and her loveable and sometimes troubled rogues. I’m sure you’ll enjoy this book too, but if you can, read the first three Mile High romances first.

I really enjoyed this story. It’s real, emotional and an honest to goodness feel good book. I love Cora and her son Micah! And Shane is wonderful! He is so sweet, sexy and kind and honestly just everything Cora needed after what she has been through. He has his own burdens but together they are what the other needs to heal and be happy. These characters are so deeply developed, real and lovable I felt like I really knew them.

A Nice Day for a Cowboy Wedding by Nicole Helm is the fourth book from the Mile High series, and is well worth your time to read. It easily can be read as a stand-alone book. I enjoyed this well written story and all the characters in it. It held my interest and was a fast pace easily read novel. The main characters in the story are Shane and Cora who both have hard issues in their past that they must overcome. The chemistry between these two is instant and their romance was full of uncertainty on both their parts. I loved the humor and the interaction with Shane’s family. It is a story of healing and how love can change your present-day feelings. I look forward to the next book in the series from Nicole Helm.

Cora is going to the ranch to help Shane's mother plan her wedding. Shane does not want his mother to marry her fiancé and is willing to do whatever he needs to do for the wedding to never take place. Cora is desperately trying to prove herself to the owner - her friend - so she needs this wedding to be planned and to take place.
The attraction between these two is almost instant. I immediately wanted the two of them together. I loved how Shane and his family even took her son under there wing. I love a good single mother romance.

This is book 4 in this series, but was fine to read on its own.
This was my first book by this author and I look forward to reading others.

This was my first book by NICOLE HELM and I thought it was wonderful! I absolutely can't wait for the next book in this series. This is of course a stand alone romance, but the next story does involve the same family and I'm hooked! This is a nice clean feel good story that covers the serious topic of abuse in a responsible way. Humor, love, family and cowboys abound in this feel good story.

This is about what happens when a woman who has been abused and is now trying to make it on her own without being viewed as a victim falls for a guy who has been a protector since he was 12 years old. She doesn’t want to be protected and he doesn’t know how to turn off the protective impulses.

Add in Cora’s 12-year old son who has witnessed his mother be beat up and has a hard time coping with all that and there are a lot of emotions swirling around this set-up. But Shane is such a really good guy that you’ll be pulling for him to figure things out.

The wedding of the title really is about the wedding that Cora is planning for Shane’s mother. Shane and his siblings are not happy that their mother has fallen for a shiftless-seeming workhand who is 10 years her junior. So the title is a bit misleading, but it’s an interesting side-story how the siblings are reacting to their mother’s desire to have a little love in her life after 20 years a widow.

I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book that I received from Netgalley; however, the opinions are my own and I did not receive any compensation for my review.

this book was ok. i would have liked more of the plot to be about them at odds with his moms wedding. ben still seemed like an ass and i kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and him to be a bad guy. i liked how upfront and flirty the heroine was.

Shane and Cora meet when she is acting as a wedding planner for his mother. They are instantly attracted to on another, but they both have a lot of baggage. The author did a terrific job of developing back stories for both the main and secondary characters. While this book is part of a series, it can easily stand on its own. It is more of a novella than a novel, but it’s a very enjoyable quick read.

Cora and Shane's story. If you've read the other books in the series (not necessary to enjoy this one) you will remember that Cora is the young mother of a 12 year old son, and her sister was from the first book. Not sure, but this might be book 4? Anyway, in this one, Cora goes out to the ranch to help Deb plan her wedding to Ben, who is 10 years younger then her, and makes her 5 children upset and worried he is taking advantage of her. Shane, as the oldest, is the natural leader, and he and Cora get thrown together and the sparks fly. Enjoyed this book a lot, and while I have read the others in the series I don't think you would be lost not having done so as well. Highly recommend this book and author and series. Issues to overcome, but a good HEA. Fun summer read.

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.