Release Blitz for Shopping for a Highlander's Elopement by Julia Ken
SHOPPING FOR A HIGHLANDER’S ELOPEMENT
(Shopping for a Highlander Series, Book 3)
Author: Julia Kent
Release Date: June 10, 2025
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer: Najla Qamber, Qamber Designs
Tropes/Themes: Sports romance, secret proposal, elopement, wedding, grumpy/sunshine, on the run, golden retriever/black cat energy, romantic comedy
Retailer Description:
I didn’t expect to fall for a Scottish footballer so annoyingly sunny you need shades to be around him.
I didn’t expect to say yes to his heart-felt, if loopy, proposal while he lay injured on the pitch, blathering on about banana pudding and sparkly unicorns.
What I definitely didn’t expect?
For our engagement to explode into a paparazzi circus, our mothers to turn into wedding bulldozers, and for our wedding protector's perfectly reasonable elopement plan to spiral into a road trip escape.
So here we are.
In Love You, Maine, a town that celebrates Valentine’s Day every single day. We’re here to get married. Quietly. No drama. In disguise.
Although good luck hiding a 6’5” ginger Scottish striker wearing a knee brace and a perpetual extrovert smile.
Instead of being subtle and blending in? Our quiet escape is vibrating heart-shaped beds, mirrors on the ceilings, secret identities, interfering mothers, and one suspiciously enthusiastic moose that humps dumpsters.
This was supposed to be a simple wedding. Just me and Hamish. No fuss.
But nothing about us has ever been simple with us.
Still, this is what love is, right? It’s chaos. It’s compromise. It’s crying in a wedding planner’s office, then kissing in a hot spring.
It’s choosing each other again and again, even when everything goes sideways.
No matter what comes next... this is our comeback story, in more ways than one.
And no - that’s not a euphemism. :)
Shopping for a Highlander’s Elopement is a romantic comedy that blends the worlds of four bestselling series by New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent:
- Shopping for a Billionaire
- Shopping for a Highlander
- Whatever It Takes
- Love You, Maine
If you love sports romance, surprise proposals, grand gestures, chaotic weddings, Scottish footballers, golden retriever/black cat energy, and characters who love too hard, mess up spectacularly, and always find their way back to each other with plenty of laughter (and lovingly-used scrunchies) along the way, then this is your book.
Short Description:
I didn’t expect to fall for a Scottish footballer so annoyingly sunny you need shades to be around him. I didn’t expect to say yes to his heart-felt, if loopy, proposal while he lay injured on the pitch in front of forty thousand fans. What I definitely didn’t expect? For our engagement to explode into a paparazzi circus, our mothers to turn into wedding bulldozers, and for our wedding protector's perfectly reasonable elopement plan to spiral into a road trip escape.
Other Books in the Series:
Shopping for a Booty Call (Prequel)
Shopping for a Turkey (Book 1)
Shopping for a Highlander (Book 2)
Shopping for a Highlander’s Elopement (Book 3)
Links:
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Shopping-Highlanders-Elopement-Julia-Kent-ebook/dp/B0DM3CR6M4
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shopping-Highlanders-Elopement-Julia-Kent-ebook/dp/B0DM3CR6M4
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Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/Shopping-Highlanders-Elopement-Julia-Kent-ebook/dp/B0DM3CR6M4/
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/shopping-for-a-highlanders-elopement/id6737852494
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221247053-shopping-for-a-highlander-s-elopement
Excerpts
Love isn’t a football game.
It’s a feeling.
A feeling that uses instinct as a tool.
I’m smarter than this. When everything felt off, I should have known that it was off for a reason.
“Jody,” I say softly, “I canna do this.”
“Of course you can. You just have the jitters. Amy’s a wonderful woman and–”
“I dinna mean the proposin’ part. That’s fine. I can do that. I mean doin’ it on the pitch.”
His turn to go green.
“You want to cancel the proposal?”
“Aye. Nae. No’ the proposin’. The doin’ it in public part. I love Amy wi’ all ma body and soul.” I frown. “She’d hate to hear me say it that way. Soul and body.” I wink at Jody. “But it’s really the other way around. Ma body knows more than ma mind.”
“I don’t need to hear every thought that pops into your head, Hamish.”
“I only tell ye the important ones.”
“Like not wanting the big spectacle we arranged for you?”
“I’m tellin’ ye now, aren’t I?”
“We have extra cameramen here for this. Your parents and siblings are in the crowd. Declan and Andrew McCormick are here. We doubled the security.”
“Is this about money? I can pay for all that.”
“It’s not–well, yes, some of it is about the money. But it’s more about publicity and planning. A lot of people put forth a huge effort to make today special for you and Amy.”
“And forty thousand of ma closest fans.”
He closes his eyes and sighs through his nose. “A better time to realize this would have been weeks ago. Not a huge US exhibition game.”
“Ma instincts told me then that this was right. Now ma gut says something else. It all feels off.”
“Your gut.”
I pat my flat stomach. “It’s gotten me this far in life. Good gut.”
He's right. I know how much work all the coaches, teammates, stadium staff and administrators, sponsors–hell, even the car park attendants–have put into helping me today. I don't have cold feet, and I love Amy to the moon and back, but something feels wrong.
As Amy says, hinky.
I can't explain it. If I had words for it, I'd use them. It's a feeling, and those don't always line up nice and neat in words that make sense.
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