Perfect Pairing: 6

A grumpy cheesemaker. A tightly-wound wine marketer. One luxury tour bus, a meddling PR team... and the road trip that might just change everything.Marnie Cole lives by the spreadsheet, especially when it comes to her career. So when she's chosen to represent Ontario's wine industry on a cross-provincial tasting tour, she's ready to impress. But her plans derail the moment she meets her Quebecois counterpart: Gabriel Bouchard, a laid-back artisan cheesemaker with a fondness for chaos, hedgehogs, and challenging her every move.Worse? They're not driving separately as promised-they're stuck together on a luxury bus with bunks, a shared kitchenette, and a PR team that thinks their bickering is adorable.As their tour winds from Niagara to Tadoussac-complete with viral interviews, surprise exes, wine-stained shirts, and one very opinionated chicken-Marnie and Gabriel must figure out if they're faking romance for the cameras... or falling for real.Clean, cozy, and laugh-out-loud funny, Perfect Pairing is a heartwarming road trip rom-com about finding love where you least expect it; somewhere between the cheddar and the Chardonnay.Perfect Pairing is part of It Happened Up North, a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy series where each story follows a new couple hitting the road across Canada, and stumbling headfirst into mishaps, misadventures, and maybe... true love.

Pages: 118, Paperback, Beaches and Trails Publishing