Wed to Jack Frost

Jack Frost is 54, and he has no plans to marry. At Yule, the Frost men drink mulled wine and dare each other to stupid stunts, and his brother bets he is too scared to send a blood sample to the Temple. Jack sends it to prove a point, and before he sobers up enough to withdraw his application, the Temple returns a match.

He climbs up to meet the woman named as his perfect mate, fully intending to tell her he is in no hurry for a wife. She has other ideas and will not let him leave. She is bossy and sharp-tongued, and she keeps pelting him with insults that he finds oddly appealing.

This is a paranormal romance told from the hero's point of view, in a comic, cheeky voice. The heat level is high: the stories are steamy and open about it. The hero is possessive, the heroine is willing to sacrifice herself for the beast, and a happy ending is promised.

The Temple is a matchmaking service for monsters, shifters and aliens. This novella is one of the Arranged Monster Mates series, which gathers short works by Eden Ember, Layla Fae and Cara Wylde. Expect a quick, light read built on a forced pairing.