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Rivals to lovers.
Twenty-five years later, they meet again — on opposite sides of the net.
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They haven't spoken in twenty-five years.
Now they're in the same tournament.
Same court. Same net.
Nothing about this is finished.
This time, one of them will have to finish what they started.
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He rebuilt networks for a living. Now he's rebuilding his life.
Three years after his wife's death, Leo Metta is starting over in Maple Ridge, BC — living carefully, spending cautiously, and sleeping in a van he doesn't talk about. Marlie DuPoint spent thirty years being the steady one. Newly divorced and newly retired, she tells herself she likes the quiet.
Then a gym card becomes a conversation. A wool coat becomes an invitation. And Friday night dinner becomes something neither of them planned.
Series
The Merge Conflict Series
Workplace romance about people who are very good at their jobs — and terrible at saying what they feel.
He writes code like a diary. She reads it like a challenge.
Book 1 — Published
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She breaks things. He fixes them. Together, they stop playing safe.
Book 2 — Published
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About the Author
Andrea Metta writes contemporary romance about capable adults — people who are very good at what they do, and far less prepared for what they feel.
The stories explore slow-burn attraction, rivalry, and second chances, often set against work, competition, and the pressure to get things right when it matters.
The Merge Conflict series follows people building technology inside a growing company. The Climb focuses on a later-in-life relationship shaped by timing, history, and hard choices. Across the Net is a sapphic rivals-to-lovers romance about two former tennis champions reuniting after twenty-five years at a charity tournament in Palm Springs.
Known for sharp dialogue and tension-driven scenes, the books centre on what happens when control slips — and something more complicated takes its place.
Based in Canada. Interested in what people do under pressure — and what they avoid saying out loud.
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May 2026
Book 4 of the Merge Conflict series is still waiting. Dani and Elena barely had the dust settled before Lucie decided she had something to say about that.
She's a secondary character in Across the Net — sharp, a little impatient, not particularly interested in standing by while I finish someone else's story. I planned to get back to the Merge world. She had a different opinion and she wasn't quiet about it.
So. Book 2 of Across the Net is now in progress. Lucie's story. The Merge series is still coming — two more books drafted and waiting on edits — but Lucie goes first.
Some characters don't give you a choice. Turns out that's fine.
April 2026
Took longer than planned. It always does, right? The last ten percent of a book is its own kind of punishment — you know what it needs to be, you just have to make it that. Dani and Elena were not cooperative characters. And Lucie was a brat, of course.
The book is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. Chapter One is on this site if you want to try before you commit.
Now: back to the Merge Conflict series. Book 4 is in progress. Different world, same problem — people who are very good at their jobs and completely unprepared for what happens when they meet someone worth being bad at things for.
More when there's more to say.
