Hiding Place

Some houses hold secrets. Some men hide in them.

Songwriter Zach Hellig has spent eight months looking for somewhere to grieve in private after losing his bandmates, the two men who were the closest thing he had to brothers, in an accident.

The world keeps watching him, so he does the one thing he can think of: he buys a crumbling fourteenth-century pele tower at the end of a two-mile lane in Northumberland. No mains electricity. No landline. No near neighbours.

Well, one.

Robert Ludlow is tall, brooding, and about as welcoming as the tower’s stone walls. He owns the neighbouring estate, he clearly has feelings about the sale, and he can’t seem to decide whether he wants Zach there or gone. When Zach’s renovations uncover a room that shouldn’t exist, sealed off since a man died there in 1985, Robert’s reluctance starts to make a very different kind of sense.

Zach came looking for a place to hide. He didn’t expect to find a mystery, a family of friends, and a man who might just understand what it means to lose the people you love.

Hiding Place is a standalone M/M mystery romance about grief, found family and hope, with a slow-burn romance, a cold case, and a house you’ll want to move into.

You’ll love it if you like: grumpy neighbours • hurt/comfort • slow burn • grief to healing • cold-case mysteries • found family • fixer-upper houses with a past.

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