After a luxury matchmaking mixer ends with blackmail, a body, and a client list full of secrets, matchmaker Zora Hart must solve who is turning romance into leverage before her business becomes the next target.

SYNOPSIS:

Zora Hart owns Match by Hart, a polished matchmaking studio built out of rent stress, presentation, and the promise that love can still be curated. During a mixer, donors smile, guests flirt, Lexi tries to keep the room moving, and Zora's separated husband Omari arrives with flowers that feel too married for the state of their life. Then the romantic machinery starts exposing itself: profile cards, interview rooms, client secrets, and a message about a ring that matters more than the man.

The mystery is not a dating app prank. It is a matchmaking world turned into a pressure cooker. Wealthy clients, jealous partners, blackmail, and curated intimacy all sit on the same client list. When violence enters the studio, Zora has to protect the business she built while figuring out who is using matches as traps. Every romantic introduction becomes evidence. Every secret preference can become motive. Matched to Murder is a contained relationship-mystery thriller about love as branding, marriage as leverage, and the danger of knowing exactly what lonely people want.