The Series
Androscoggin After Dark
Four books. Four seasons. One river that never forgets.
Androscoggin After Dark is a dark romantic suspense and North Country crime series set along the fictionalized backroads, rivers, motels, logging roads, firegrounds, small towns, and forgotten places of northern New Hampshire.
Each book follows a new season, a new layer of the mystery, and a deeper current of danger, desire, grief, secrets, and survival.
The series is best read in order.
In the North Country, Desire Runs Deep.
So do the bodies.
The North Country is beautiful, but not polished. Quiet, but not empty. The mountains press close. The weather has teeth. Logging roads disappear into the trees. Rivers cut through towns that have survived boom years, mill closures, hard winters, old rumors, family secrets, and the kind of history that does not always make it into brochures.
That is the world of Androscoggin After Dark.
A world where the river remembers.
The woods keep secrets.
And the past never stays buried forever.
The Reading Order
Book One: When the River Freezes — Available Now
Book Two: When the River Thaws — Releases July 1
Book Three: When the River Runs — Releases August 1
Book Four: When the River Burns — Releases September 1
Each book has its own emotional arc, danger, romance, and revelations, but the mystery grows across the full series.
For the full experience, start at the river in winter and follow it through the thaw, the summer current, and the final autumn fire.
Book One: When the River Freezes
Available Now
Winter locks the North Country in ice, silence, and old grief.
When the frozen river begins giving back what someone tried to hide, the first crack appears in a mystery that reaches through motel rooms, missing women, family names, and the secrets a small town learned not to speak aloud.
Available in Kindle and paperback. Free with Kindle Unlimited. Audiobook coming soon.
Book Two: When the River Thaws
Preorder Now — Releases July 1
Spring brings mud, runoff, washed-out roads, rising water, and old evidence that refuses to stay buried.
As the thaw reaches deeper into the North Country, the story pulls through motel records, family history, dangerous loyalties, and the people who believed silence would protect them.
Available for preorder. Kindle and paperback. Free with Kindle Unlimited at release. Audiobook coming soon.
Book Three: When the River Runs
Coming August 1
Summer brings heat, dust, swollen water, long days, bad decisions, and a current that carries danger farther than anyone expected.
The story widens beyond the first rooms and buried evidence, following the river into deeper secrets, old connections, and a threat that refuses to stay upstream.
Kindle and paperback coming August 1. Audiobook coming soon.
Book Four: When the River Burns
Coming September 1
Autumn brings beauty, smoke, darkness, public smiles, private panic, and the kind of reckoning that cannot be contained.
The secrets that began with a frozen river finally ignite, forcing old names, buried truths, and dangerous loyalties into the open.
Kindle and paperback coming September 1. Audiobook coming soon.
The River as the Spine of the Series
The Androscoggin River is more than a setting in these books.
It is witness, symbol, threat, and memory.
It freezes.
It thaws.
It runs.
It burns.
And through every season, it carries the truth closer to the surface.
“The woods keep their secrets. The river eventually gives them back.”
— Erica R. Buteau
What to Expect
Dark romantic suspense.
North Country crime.
Small-town secrets.
Old family names.
First responders, deputies, motel rooms, firegrounds, logging roads, riverbanks, backroad rumors, bad coffee, worse decisions, and people trying to survive what others buried.
Heat, danger, grief, loyalty, and love stories that do not arrive clean.
Stay Close to the River
For book news, release reminders, bonus content, recipes from the series, character extras, behind-the-scenes notes, and North Country inspiration, visit From the Riverbank.
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Start Reading
Begin with When the River Freezes, Book One in the Androscoggin After Dark series.
Available now in Kindle and paperback. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
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