THE PAIRING title reveal (10/23/23)

Casey McQuiston fans everywhere will be thrilled to learn that they will soon be coming out with a new novel in August 2024! THE PAIRING is a romance about two bisexual exes who accidentally end up on the same food and wine tour during their European vacation and challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they’re over each other except they’re definitely not.

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now
estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food
and wine tour, they exited each other’s lives once and for all.

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 eighteen days 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.

THE PAIRING by Casey McQuiston; 9781250862747; 8/6/24