Four seasons. One river. A year of secrets coming to the surface.
In New Hampshire's North Country, the Androscoggin has always been good at keeping what people give it.
Until the winter a body comes through the ice.
What follows reaches far beyond one death. Old names surface. Women who disappeared become harder to explain away. Records do not match the stories people have been telling for years, and places everyone thought they understood begin to look different once someone starts asking the right questions.
The snow melts, the roads soften, summer engines tear through the woods, and by fall fire is burning across black water. Through every season, the same truth keeps pushing its way forward. Someone counted on distance, silence, fear, and time to bury what happened here.
They did not count on the people who would refuse to leave it buried.
At the heart of the River Series are four women whose lives become tangled with the secrets running beneath their towns. Maura Vale never learned how to look away. Sienna Lavoie knows what it means to live with unanswered questions. Claire Caron follows evidence into places most people would rather avoid. Carrie Walsh understands that sometimes the smallest detail is the one that breaks everything open.
Their stories unfold among deputies, first responders, investigators, families, neighbors, old motel rooms, back roads, culverts, ATV trails, riverbanks, and the deep woods of northern New Hampshire. There is danger here, but there is also love, loyalty, stubbornness, dark humor, and the kind of people who show up when it matters.
Androscoggin After Dark: The River Series Omnibus
brings together the complete four-book series in one newly edited volume:
When the River Freezes
When the River Thaws
When the River Runs
When the River Burns
This omnibus also includes the final series epilogue,
Something That Held, bringing the River Series full circle and giving its characters the ending they earned.
For readers who love atmospheric romantic suspense, interconnected mysteries, strong women, slow-burn relationships, small-town secrets, and crime fiction rooted deeply in place.
Small towns keep secrets. Rivers keep the rest.