Shopping for a Highlander’s Baby
(Shopping for a Highlander, #4)
By: Julia Kent
Publication Date: March 30, 2026
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance
Cover Designer: Najla Qamber, Qamber Designs
Tropes/Themes: Sports Romance, Pregnancy, Baby, Grumpy/Sunshine (Reverse), Romantic Comedy
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Synopsis:
The best early strike o’ ma life wasna on the pitch. It was in bed with Amy on our honeymoon.
Dinna ken how we turned our elopement, honeymoon, and conception into a hat trick, but there ye go.
One minute we’re swimming in champagne and red satin sheets, the next we’re staring at a due date that lands right when I’m supposed ta start my big sportscasting gig in London.
Amy’s glowing. She’s also got that fire in her — the kind that makes her tell my billionaire uncle exactly where ta shove his branding campaign, quit her job at eight months pregnant, and rearrange our entire life plan on a Tuesday.
The grandmums are suspiciously quiet, which is more terrifying than when they’re at each other’s throats.
Then it happens. The wee one decides ta make an entrance four weeks early — while I’m three thousand miles away, live on air, with a producer who willna let me leave.
So I do what any McCormick would do.
I coach ma wife through labor in one ear, commentate the match in the other, and let a billion people watch me choose my family over my career on live television.
It’s messy. It’s loud. It’s pure chaos.
It’s the match of our lives.
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Hamish
Snow in Boston is like looking through a kaleidoscope. Cozy movie snowfall one minute, horizontal assault the next.
And speaking of assaults, our living room looks like a baby store exploded.
Boxes, packing paper, plastic, the new crib still in its box, and in the corner, a plush animal so huge, it should be paying rent. I think it’s a giraffe. Or a cow. Maybe a horse born with forceps?
Amy stands in the doorway, arms crossed, wearing my team hoodie and burgundy leggings, eyeing the chaos and the Godzilla-sized animal like she wishes it would animate and eat me.
“I’m going to Mike’s Pastry,” she announces. “I need cannoli and ten minutes where nothing in the room is trying to choke, stab, smother, or emotionally manipulate me.”
“I ken ye dinna mean me, and I dinna think the crib is emotionally manipulative,” I say. “The giraffe/cow demon, aye, but—”
She points at the crib box: “When I come back in one hour, this will be assembled.”
Then the baby wrap on the couch: “You will figure out how to wear that.”
Then the giant giraffe/cow demon thing: “And that abomination will at least be turned around to face the wall. I swear its eyes follow me.”
I straighten up. I can’t magically fix my knee or guarantee a contract, but I can assemble furniture and tame beasts.
“Aye, pet. Consider it done. I’m verra good at managing equipment.”
“Hamish.” She is squinting at me. “When we moved in together, you thought my salad spinner was a helmet.”
“In ma defense, it fits ma head.”
She kisses me, warm and quick.
“One hour. Or I’m returning everything. Including you.”
“Stay warm! It’s balty out there.”
The door shuts. Snow whips past the window.
Right. Me versus the baby gear.
About Julia Kent
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. Since 2013, she has sold more than 2 million books, with 4 New York Times bestsellers and more than 21 appearances on the USA Today bestseller list. Her books have been translated into French, German, and Italian, with more titles releasing in the future.
From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men's room toilet (and he isn't a billionaire she met in a romantic comedy).
She lives in New England with her husband and three children where she is the only person in the household with the gene required to change empty toilet paper rolls.
She loves to hear from her readers by email at julia@jkentauthor.com, on Twitter @jkentauthor, on Facebook at @jkentauthor, and on Instagram @jkentauthor. Visit her at http://jkentauthor.com
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My obsession with reading started over 30+ years ago when I went to my first Scholastic Book Fair and found R.L. Stine's Fear Street series. Later, I came across Anne Rice's novels at my public library when I was fourteen when my obsession with vampires started. I was the girl who preferred to be a vampire over a princess any day. My husband says I would leave him a heartbeat for a vampire that looked like Spike or Angel (from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or Damon Salvatore from The Vampire Diaries. (It's true, though, and he's accepted it.)
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