Welcome to Androscoggin After Dark, a dark romantic suspense and North Country crime series set along the fictionalized backroads, motels, logging roads, rivers, and forgotten places of the banks of the Androscoggin River, northern New Hampshire.
Book One Available Now
When the River Freezes
Book One in the Androscoggin After Dark series
A cold river. A forgotten motel room. A woman who thought she had buried the past — until the North Country gave it back.
Available now in Kindle and paperback.
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Audiobook coming soon.
Book One Available Now
The series continues all summer.
| Book | Title | Release |
| Book One | When the River Freezes | Available Now |
| Book Two | When the River Thaws | July 1 |
| Book Three | When the River Runs | August 1 |
| Book Four | When the River Burns | September 1 |
Small towns remember everything.
In the North Country, secrets do not disappear. They freeze into riverbanks, settle into motel walls, pass from one generation to the next, and wait for someone reckless enough to start digging.
At the heart of the series flows the Androscoggin River, winding through the mountains, mill towns, forests, and forgotten roads of Coös County in Northern New Hampshire. Inspired by places like Berlin, Dummer, Gorham, Errol, and Milan, the world of Androscoggin After Dark blends small-town secrets, romantic suspense, and the lingering echoes of the past into stories where the river remembers what others would rather forget.
Best read in order.
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When the River Runs Is Here | Androscoggin After Dark Book Three
Book Three of the Androscoggin After Dark romantic suspense series is here. When Derek Donovan vanishes near the Androscoggin, Room 12 comes back into the… Read more.
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Androscoggin River: A Poetic Journey Through Time
Long before Androscoggin After Dark, poet Lucy Larcom stood at Berlin Falls and heard something in the river: movement, mystery, strength, and the story of… Read more.
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River Reflections: Why the Androscoggin Keeps Showing Up in My Stories
The Androscoggin River is more than scenery in my stories. It is witness, memory, and movement — carrying the beauty, danger, silence, and secrets of… Read more.
Erica R. Buteau
Erica R. Buteau
Author. Homesteader. Keeper of chickens and dark North Country secrets.
Meet The Author
“The woods keep their secrets. The river eventually gives them back.”
— Erica R. Buteau
