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CF White

Starting over might mean getting too close.

When DI Harrison Black transfers from the Met to the small Yorkshire town of Hartswick, he’s chasing distance—from London, guilt, and the grief of losing his husband.

He expects a quieter life.

Instead, within hours of his arrival, a seventeen-year-old girl vanishes on a woodland path, plunging Harrison straight into a case with a chilling echo. Thirteen years earlier, another young woman disappeared from the very same place.

Robyn Whitton was never found.

Her brother Jake never stopped looking for her.

Roofer. Drummer. Ex-con. Local troublemaker with a temper and absolutely no faith in the police, Jake Whitton is everything Harrison should keep at arm’s length. He’s also fiercely loyal, infuriatingly persistent, and determined to involve himself in Harrison’s investigation whether Harrison likes it or not.

Which would be considerably easier if Harrison weren’t becoming far too interested in the man behind all that anger.

Jake knows better than to trust a copper. The police failed Robyn. Then they failed him. And DI Harrison Black, with his quiet authority, wedding ring and grief he wears like armour, should be the last man capable of getting beneath Jake’s skin.

Except he does.

Jake knows how to want a man. He’s far less comfortable with wanting one to stay.

As a present-day disappearance drags Robyn’s cold case back into the light, Harrison and Jake are pulled closer together, blurring the line between professional and personal. Because Harrison isn’t only getting dangerously close to a man connected to his investigation.

He might finally be getting close to the truth.

And in a town that has kept its secrets for thirteen years, someone will do anything to make sure they stay buried.

For Harrison, getting too close could cost him his career.
For Jake, it could cost him the answers he’s spent half his life searching for.
For both of them, it could cost far more than they’re ready to lose.

Too Close to Home is Book One of the Whitton & Black trilogy, a gritty MM romantic suspense featuring a widowed detective, a hot-headed ex-con roofer, cop × cop-hater tension, age gap, forbidden attraction, forced proximity, hurt/comfort and a slow-burn romance that develops across all three books.