The Pairing

Theo and Kit were childhood best friends, then crushes, then a couple. Their relationship ended in a brutal breakup on the flight to the European food and wine tour they had planned together, and they have not spoken since. Both are bisexual, and both insist they are long over it.

Four years on, Theo works as a bartender at night and studies to become a sommelier by day, with a string of casual lovers. Kit never came back to America and now bakes pastry at one of the best restaurants in Paris. He graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class.

The tour voucher they never used is about to expire, 48 months after its original date. Each decides to take the trip alone. Only when they climb onto the tour bus do they learn they booked the same one.

Three weeks across France, Spain and Italy now stretch ahead of them, with wine tastings, rich meals and some of the most romantic cities in Europe as the backdrop. The romantic comedy plays the tension for laughs.

Theo proposes a wager on who can sleep with the tour guide first, a hot Italian, and Kit agrees at once. The bet grows into a full hookup competition meant to prove there is nothing left between them, though a taste of everything may only make them crave the one thing they can't have.