Frankie Monroe joins a voice-only dating app looking for a little fun. She certainly doesn’t expect the man behind the gravelly laugh, filthy late-night conversations, and username Fireboy to become the person she looks forward to hearing from every day.

But somewhere between the teasing and the hours spent talking in the dark, Frankie starts to wonder whether their connection could become something real.

Then he ghosts her.

But when Frankie is invited home to Maplewood for Christmas with her sister at the retired Fire Chief’s house, she hears that unmistakable voice walking through the door on Christmas Day. Fireboy is Mason Fletcher—and he’s charming, infuriating, and considerably harder to ignore in person.

Mason knows he hurt her, and finding her in Maplewood feels like the second chance he doesn’t deserve but refuses to waste. So when a snowstorm leaves them stranded together, Frankie has nowhere to hide from the chemistry that never disappeared—or the possibility that what they found through the app was real long before either of them knew the other’s name.

A Merry Match is a spicy small-town Christmas novella featuring a voice-only dating app, hidden identities, forced proximity, golden retriever x black cat energy, found family, and a firefighter determined to win back the woman he never meant to lose.