Across the Net by Andrea Metta

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Across
the Net

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.

Rivals to Lovers Second Chance F/F Romance Tennis Slow Burn Later in Life
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Contemporary Romance

Competent
adults.
Complicated
feelings.

Contemporary romance about capable adults — and what happens when control slips.

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He rebuilt networks for a living. Now he's rebuilding his life.

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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.

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Andrea Metta

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, while The Climb focuses on a later-in-life relationship shaped by timing, history, and hard choices.

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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The Merge Conflict Series

Workplace romance about people who are very good at their jobs — and terrible at saying what they feel.

Series in Progress
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Pull Request

He writes code like a diary. She reads it like a challenge.

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Race Condition

She breaks things. He fixes them. Together, they stop playing safe.

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Book 2 — Published

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Dependency Hell

Dependency Hell

Two women. One company. No clean way out.

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Book 3 — Published

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He rebuilt networks for a living. Now he's rebuilding his life.

Second Chance Later in Life Small Town KU

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 — as a doctor, a wife, a mother. Newly divorced and newly retired, she owns her condo, walks her dog every morning, and 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.

A deeply romantic novel about second chances — and what it costs to choose love when independence feels safer.

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Across the Net

Across the Net by Andrea Metta

They haven't spoken in twenty-five years.

Now they're in the same tournament.

Same court. Same net.

Nothing about this is finished.

Dani Morales came to Palm Springs for the prize money. That's what she tells herself. One hundred thousand dollars for a charity invitational, courts all summer for the kids she coaches, clean and simple.

Then she sees Elena Markovic's name on the banner at the airport.

Twenty-five years. Different continents. Different lives. Her nervous system remembers anyway.

They were rivals first. Then something else — the best kept secret of the tour. Then nothing, for a very long time.

The Legends Invitational puts them back on the same court. They're older now. Wiser, supposedly. Better at keeping things contained.

Supposedly.

Rivals to Lovers Second Chance F/F Romance Tennis Slow Burn Later in Life Standalone
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We spend more waking hours at work than anywhere else. Of course that's where the complicated feelings happen. Fiction that pretends otherwise is the one telling lies.

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Competence is attractive. It's also one of the hardest things to write convincingly — because you have to actually understand what they're doing.

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Across the Net

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Dani — Point of View

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