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Highland Chances

A heart-warming romantic comedy about love, community and life in the Scottish Highlands
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Newly married and blissfully happy, Gaby and Jack are looking forward to another summer of fun in the village of Lochalshie. But there are clouds on the horizon...The Lochside Welcome pub and hotel is at the heart of the community-where the villagers gather to meet, gossip... Read More
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Newly married and blissfully happy, Gaby and Jack are looking forward to another summer of fun in the village of Lochalshie. But there are clouds on the horizon...The Lochside Welcome pub and hotel is at the heart of the community-where the villagers gather to meet, gossip and eat Scotland's finest pizzas.Now, it's under threat. The landlord is ill, business has dropped away and the hotel at the other end of the village keeps muscling in, scooping up tourists, weddings and even the locals...Can Gaby and Jack save the day? What with the ever-increasing work demands, rival hotel owners not above using dirty tactics and the small matter of an about to happen life-changing event our couple are woefully ill-prepared for, it's all hands on deck to try to ensure the Lochside Welcome survives another day...If you love heart-warming, feel good fiction books that come with a side order of laughs, you're in the right place. Highland Chances is an engaging, fun-filled romp through Scottish small towns and rural life, and is the perfect read for fans of Sophie Kinsella, Jill Mansell and Jenny Colgan, and those looking for books like Marian Keyes.Praise for the Highland Books series:'It's sweet, funny, bubbly and happy, even when it's dramatic and poignant. You'll fall in love with this place and scan the online maps to try and find it. If you love romance, and who doesn't, you'll fall for this series as much as I have. A feel-good witty romantic novel that ticks all the boxes. I already want the next one.''Great storytelling with characters I really warmed to.''The Highland Books Box Set... are a good read. They are also fun to read. The characters are your friends that you care about and want to succeed. You travel with them to Scotland and find more characters you enjoy and feel for. The stories are entertaining. Reading all three books was a lively journey that I recommend.''This is a great series with warm wonderful characters, the perfect Highland setting, some hilarious events and one very hungry cat. Highly recommended.'The Highland Books frequently asked questions:Do I need to have read the other books to understand this one?You might want to, or perhaps you already have. But I've added in a list of characters and a bit of back story throughout so you can understand the book even if you haven't read Highland Fling, Highland Heart and Highland Wedding.What makes the books worth reading?Good question! I like to think I provide light-hearted escapism and relatable characters that readers will care about. I throw in a dash of comedy. We all need a bit of laughter at the moment, don't we? My books are on the storytelling platform, Wattpad. To date, they've had almost 200,000 reads and a lot of comments from readers who love them.Is the setting of the story important?My stories are set in a fictional village called Lochalshie, which is loosely based on Arrochar in the west coast of Scotland. Scottish stories often chime with readers craving books that have a strong community feel. The 'village' feels almost like an actual character to me.Why are the cats in your books so spoilt?I'm a huge cat lover and have two of my own. I think other cat lovers will recognise behaviours such as talking to your cat in a silly voice, buying them expensive food, overfeeding them and allowing them to sleep wherever they want. Nowadays, I have two cats my husband and I adopted from the local animal shelter. It's a bit of a squeeze getting into bed at night...Book number four in the Highland Books series.

Series: The Highland Books

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  • Highland Fling
    A boy, a girl, a dating guruβ€”what can possibly go wrong?! Gaby's recently split from her boyfriend of ten years and needs to escape fast. Where better than the Highlands of Scotland where she can lick her wounds and recover in peace and quiet? Fate has different ideas in mind. First, there's the rough and ready Jack McAllan who bears...
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  • Highland Chances
    Newly married and blissfully happy, Gaby and Jack are looking forward to another summer of fun in the village of Lochalshie. But there are clouds on the horizon...The Lochside Welcome pub and hotel is at the heart of the community-where the villagers gather to meet, gossip and eat Scotland's finest pizzas.Now, it's under threat. The landlord is ill, business has...
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  • Highland Heart
    An absent boyfriend and a charmer close by-who would you choose? β™₯The follow-up to Highland Fling, Highland Heart follows the story of Katya and Dexter-lovers who met at a magical village in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, but who begin to drift apart.She wants him; he wants her but there are thousands of miles between them.Meanwhile, there's a new...
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  • Highland Wedding
    Ask a man to marry you and the rest is a walk in the park. When Gaby springs a proposal on Jack, he is happy to say 'yes'. The only problem is their wedding needs to take place in three months' time. No problem, right...?The residents of the village that they live in love the idea, delighted at the prospect...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781036711214

Publisher: Vinci Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vinci Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 400

About the Author

"One day, my sweet, we shall buy all our weekly food from Waitrose, Marks and Spencer's and small, artisan producers," that's the promise writer Emma Baird regularly makes to her husband, the vow dependent on plenty of people being kind enough to buy her books and boost her income... There's always a plan B, though... In the meantime, she also copywrites and edits to make ends meet, saving her fiction scribbling for when she has the odd hour or so. She is the author of the Highland Books series, set in the fictional village of Lochalshie (loosely based on Arrochar on the west coast of Scotland), and she is working on a few novels at the moment (she loves writing and HATES rewriting and revising...) Her website is: https://emmabaird.com and she'd be delighted if you dropped by. if you'd do her the ginormous favour of signing up for her newsletter by emailing her at pinkglitterpubs@gmail.com, she'll send you a free short story. The newsletter features a lot of pics of cats and very little in the way of hard sells. Emma lives close to the Bonnie, Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond with her understanding husband and two VERY demanding cats.

Also by Emma Baird

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  • Highland Fling
    A boy, a girl, a dating guruβ€”what can possibly go wrong?! Gaby's recently split from her boyfriend of ten years and needs to escape fast. Where better than the Highlands of Scotland where she can lick her wounds and recover in peace and quiet? Fate has different ideas in mind. First, there's the rough and ready Jack McAllan who bears...
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    $5000
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  • Highland Heart
    An absent boyfriend and a charmer close by-who would you choose? β™₯The follow-up to Highland Fling, Highland Heart follows the story of Katya and Dexter-lovers who met at a magical village in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, but who begin to drift apart.She wants him; he wants her but there are thousands of miles between them.Meanwhile, there's a new...
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  • Highland Wedding
    Ask a man to marry you and the rest is a walk in the park. When Gaby springs a proposal on Jack, he is happy to say 'yes'. The only problem is their wedding needs to take place in three months' time. No problem, right...?The residents of the village that they live in love the idea, delighted at the prospect...
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