The Pairing
Casey McQuiston
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 65 ratings · 395 pages · Published: 06 Aug 2024
Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but—yeah. It's in the past.
All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately.
It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It's fine. There's nothing left between them. So much nothing that, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is totally game. And why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition?
But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can't have.
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- bisexuality 9
- contemporary 7
- non-binary romance 7
- second chances 6
- dual pov 5
- queer romance 5
- forced proximity 5
- friends to lovers 4
- funny 4
- praise kink 4
- new adult 3
- multicultural 3
- first person pov 3
- enemies to lovers 2
- found family 2
- angst 2
- other man/woman 2
- sunny/happy hero 2
- grumpy & sunshine 2
- male pov 1
- childfree 1
- tortured hero 1
- grumpy/ice queen 1
- tortured heroine 1
- grumpy/cold hero 1
- working class hero 1
- famous heroine 1
- rich heroine 1
- plain heroine 1
- exhibitionism 1
- slow burn 1
- anal sex 1
- take-charge heroine 1
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- geography
- europe 3
- france 2
- spain 2
- italy 2
- north america 1
- usa 1
- california 1
- british isles 1
- united kingdom 1
- england 1
- western & central europe 1
- southern europe 1
- monaco 1
- content warnings
- slut shaming 1
- drug abuse 1
- mental trauma 1
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