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Just a Highland Fling

Naina Kumar·Dell·2026·352 pages
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Neelu Pillai flies to Scotland for her estranged father’s wedding intending to keep her head down. Instead she hooks up with a local the night before, then delivers a tipsy tirade at the rehearsal dinner that sends the bride running. So she owes her father a runaway bride, and the search party is the three of them — Neelu, her father, and Jacob, the desi bagpiper from the night before. Several days in a car through the Highlands toward Skye, with a father-daughter reckoning going on in the back seat. Kumar builds books around situations that trap two people together, and this is her best-liked one.

Just a Highland Fling
By Naina Kumar. Dell, 2026. 352 pages.