Dear Reader,
I’m so excited to introduce my upcoming
cowboy series, Big Sky Cowboys, which kicks off with REBEL COWBOY this
January. REBEL COWBOY is about a disgraced hockey player who decides to try and
whip his grandparents’ deserted ranch into shape. When he hires a tough-as-nails
local rancher to help him figure out how to do that, a local rancher who turns
out to be a woman—a young, attractive woman—well, both characters get
what they never expected.
I love writing about strong heroines who
think they’re unbreakable and the confident, charming heroes who manage to get
under all that tough exterior. Banter is one of my favorite things to write, so
putting these two hard-headed people together and getting to write their
arguments, their teasing, and their more vulnerable moments was so much fun.
I also love putting characters in
environments where they’re way out of their element. Dan doesn’t know a thing
about ranching, his entire life has been hockey. Not only did he grow up
playing it, but his father was a Hall of Fame NHL star and now works in the
front office of an NHL team. Living in a city and playing hockey are literally
all Dan has ever known. All he knows about Montana and this ranch is that his
grandfather loved it, and being isolated in Montana will keep him out of the
press while his agent works to find him a new team. So, being in this
completely new environment means Dan makes some pretty amusing missteps along
the way.
And Mel, well, she might be a ranching
expert, but a handsome man with charm to spare is something she’s never
had to face before. Not only has her life been pretty isolated on her family’s
Montana ranch with only her father and brother, but her one and only
relationship was for convenience rather than passion. So, she doesn't know what
to do with Dan’s flirting, except fight it. Well… at first anyway. Add to that,
Mel has a lot of baggage that makes it really hard for her to open up and
trust.
These two certainly have their work cut out
for them to make it to their happily ever after!
One of my favorite parts about writing REBEL
COWBOY are the scenes with the mystery llama. Yes, a llama. I can’t even really
explain how that happened. I just thought, wouldn’t it be funny if Dan had to
deal with something really unexpected… like a mystery llama? (One too many
viewings of Napoleon Dynamite may have had something to do with
this). How Dan deals with Mystery (the llama) and how Mel deals with Dan
dealing with the llama, well, it definitely gave me a few laughs while writing.
Aside from llamas and the romance between
these two polar opposites, I wanted to tell a story about a broken family, who
slowly learn how to heal. Mel is the first step in the Shaw family’s healing,
and the remaining two books in the series—OUTLAW COWBOY (May), and TRUE-BLUE
COWBOY (2017)—will continue to deliver that happy ending, not just to each
sibling, but to the entire Shaw family.
I hope you’ll consider a trip to Blue Valley,
Montana and enjoy some Big Sky Cowboys!
A Quote From Rebel
Cowboy:
“You know,
having a penis doesn’t make you incapable of making actual food.”
“Oh, and
here I thought it was always flopping around, getting in the way.”
Title: Rebel Cowboy
Author: Nicole
Helm
Series: Big Sky
Cowboys, #1
Pubdate: January
5th, 2016
ISBN: 9781492621249
UNDER A BIG SKY
For hotshot NHL star Dan Sharpe, hockey isn’t just his
job—it’s his everything. But when claims of cheating get him bounced
from the ice, he finds himself feeling lost. Everyone thinks he’s crazy for
taking on his grandfather’s ramshackle Montana ranch, but hey, he’s Dan
Sharpe: how hard can it be?
As it turns out? Plenty hard.
Mel Shaw has been fighting tooth and nail to keep her family
from falling apart. The last thing she needs is a distraction, but taking a job
as some city slicker’s consultant may be her only chance to save the land she
loves. But she never expected someone like Dan to come roaring into her life,
and it doesn’t take long for Mel to realize this hockey-star-turned-cowboy has
the power to upend her carefully ordered world—and heart—for good.
Nicole Helm
writes down-to-earth contemporary romance specializing in people who don’t live
close enough to neighbors for them to be a problem. When she’s not writing, she
spends her time dreaming about someday owning a barn. She lives with her husband and two young sons in
O’Fallon, Missouri.
Buy Links:
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1NPXyG0
Apple: http://apple.co/1RkKcEa
Chapters: http://bit.ly/1m2ixe7
Indiebound: http://bit.ly/1QpnMl9
Kobo: http://bit.ly/1I5ctvH
Welcome and congrats!
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