Whitton & Black: MM Romantic Suspense Trilogy

A grieving detective. A hot-headed ex-con. A thirteen-year-old mystery neither of them can leave alone.

When widowed DI Harrison Black transfers from the Met to the small Yorkshire town of Hartswick, he’s looking for a quieter life. What he finds is a missing girl, a cold case with disturbing similarities—and Jake Whitton.

Roofer. Drummer. Ex-con. Local troublemaker.

And a man whose spent thirteen years refusing to believe the police did everything they could to find his missing sister.

Jake has no reason to trust Harrison. Harrison has every reason to keep his distance from Jake. Unfortunately, neither of them are particularly good at staying away.

As new crimes expose old secrets buried beneath Hartswick’s picturesque surface, Harrison and Jake are drawn deeper into a mystery that began long before they met. Powerful men have things to hide. Someone has spent years making sure the truth stays buried. And every answer seems to lead back to the same question.

What really happened to Robyn Whitton?

Across three books, suspicion becomes attraction, attraction becomes something neither man expected, and two stubborn men who’ve both lost too much discover that finding home sometimes means risking everything to keep it.

The Whitton & Black Trilogy is an interconnected MM romantic suspense series following the same couple through all three books, combining slow-burn romance, murder mysteries, small-town secrets, police investigations, danger, hurt/comfort and found family, with a twelve-year age gap, a widowed detective, a foul-mouthed ex-con who definitely doesn’t trust coppers, and a hard-earned HEA.

The mysteries change. The danger grows. The romance continues across all three books.

Start with Too Close to Home, continue with In Too Deep, and discover the truth in Too Far Gone.

Too Close to home

(Whitton & Black 1)

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.

In TOO DEEP

(Whitton & black book 2)

Digging deeper might mean falling too far.

DI Harrison Black knows getting involved with Jake Whitton is complicated.

Jake is an ex-con who doesn’t trust the police. Harrison is the detective reopening the case of his missing sister. They should have kept their distance.

They didn’t.

Now the attraction they fought so hard has become something neither of them can walk away from—and Harrison is beginning to realise he has far more to lose than his career.

Then a woman’s body is pulled from the river.

As Harrison investigates, the case begins exposing secrets someone in Hartswick would rather keep buried. And with every new question comes the possibility that what happened to this woman could lead them closer to the truth about Robyn Whitton’s disappearance thirteen years ago.

Jake has waited too long for answers to stay out of it.

Harrison cares about him far too much to let him get hurt.

And neither man is particularly good at doing what he’s told.

For Harrison, falling too far could cost him everything he’s rebuilt.
For Jake, digging too deep could put him in more danger than he realises.
For both of them, the closer they get to the truth, the more they have to lose.

Too far gone

(whitton & black book 3)

Uncovering the truth might cost them everything.

DI Harrison Black came to Yorkshire for a quieter life.

He got Jake Whitton instead.

Hot-headed, foul-mouthed and absolutely incapable of staying out of police business, Jake should have been everything the widowed detective knew better than to want.

Somehow, he became home.

And for once, life is good. Lazy mornings. Stolen kisses. Arguments neither of them really means. A relationship they’re still keeping secret and the growing certainty that whatever happens next, neither of them wants to face it without the other.

But Hartswick still has one of their own left to give up.

Thirteen years ago, Robyn Whitton disappeared without a trace. Jake has never stopped looking for his sister, and Harrison has never stopped digging.

Now, a series of seemingly unconnected crimes is pulling Robyn’s cold case back into the light.

Old lies are beginning to unravel. People who stayed silent are getting nervous. And the closer Harrison gets to what really happened thirteen years ago, the more dangerous the search becomes.

Because someone knows the truth about Robyn Whitton.

And they’ve had thirteen years to make sure it stays buried.

For Harrison, falling in love with Jake means finally having something to lose again.
For Jake, finding the truth means risking everything to reach it.
And this time, neither of them may be able to walk away unscathed.