The Pairing

Casey McQuiston

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Theo and Kit were inseparable since childhood and then became each other's first great love, until a brutal breakup on the flight to a long-planned European food-and-wine tour ended things for good. Years later they both end up rebooked on the same tour, and rather than skip the trip they decide to turn it into a playful, competitive hookup contest across France, Spain, and Italy to prove they're over each other. As the trip winds through vineyards, bakeries, and coastal towns, old feelings and unfinished business keep bubbling back up between them. It's a sensory, globe-trotting second-chance romance about food, wine, queerness, and figuring out who you've become since the last time you loved someone.