Perfect Pairing (It Happened Up North #6)

A control-obsessed wine marketer. A laid-back cheesemaker with a pet hedgehog. One retrofitted school bus, a relentless PR team… and the road trip that’s about to go viral.

Marnie Cole lives by her color-coded spreadsheets—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 with laminated schedules and backup plans for her backup plans.

Then she meets Gabriel Bouchard.

He’s a fourth-generation Québécois cheesemaker who thinks plans are optional, carries emergency cheese in his pockets, and has an annoying habit of being right when he challenges her perfectly organized pairings.

Worse? They’re not in separate branded vans as promised—they’re sharing a teal school bus with bunk beds, a shared kitchenette, and a social media team convinced their banter is “couple goals.”

As their tour winds from Niagara to Tadoussac—through viral TikToks, wine-stained disasters, an unwelcome ex-boyfriend, and one very judgmental chicken named Henrietta—Marnie and Gabriel must figure out if they’re playing up the chemistry 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.