He planned for everything... except Benji Kwon.They'd been neighbors for months — the methodical veterinary surgeon in 4B and the bartender with glitter on his collar in 4A.Then a plumbing disaster flooded Benji's apartment, and Peter made the mistake of offering his foster room as a temporary home.It was supposed to last for two weeks, maybe three. They had separate shelves, separate schedules and there would be absolutely no touching the laminated kitten binder. Their Post-it war started on day one. "Your shampoo smells like a man who has given up on joy. I upgraded you. — B" "I didn't ask to be upgraded. — P" "You didn't ask to be happy either, and yet here we are. — B" What followed was three months of 3 AM kitchen conversations, a stove light that stayed on long after either of them stopped pretending it was for the dog, and twenty-two feet of hallway that was never the distance that mattered. A slow-burn MM romance about a man who planned for everything except falling in love again, and the bartender with a blown-out knee, a screaming hairless cat, and a gift for finding the cracks in every wall Peter ever built. If Cheers, Heartstopper, and Heated Rivalry walked into a bar and refused to leave, the Barbacks series would be the hangover they'd wake up grateful for. Whipped! is book 3 in the series and can be read as a standalone. There's found family, forced proximity, foster kittens with Spice Girls names, one nude ambush involving folded boxers, and a deliciously romantic love story built through sticky notes.