Book Release
Book Two Is Here: When the River Thaws Has Released
The second book in my North Country romantic suspense series is out now — and the Androscoggin is not done giving things back.
There is something fitting about releasing the second book in Androscoggin After Dark during summer, even though the story itself belongs to mud season.
Because When the River Thaws is about what happens after the freeze breaks.
The snow softens. The ditches run high. Culverts start talking. Gravel roads loosen. Things that were hidden all winter begin to surface, whether anyone is ready for them or not.
And in this book, the Androscoggin is not done giving things back.
Spring made liars nervous. It had a nasty habit of giving back what winter had covered.
When the River Thaws is officially out now, and I am so excited — and honestly a little emotional — to share the next chapter of this series with readers.
Book One, When the River Freezes, introduced the frozen-river mystery, the North Star Motel, Room 9, and a town that had spent years deciding which women were worth searching for. Book Two picks up in the aftermath, but it belongs to Sienna Lavoie.
Meet Sienna
Sienna is sharp, guarded, stubborn, and carrying more grief than she wants anyone to see. When spring runoff exposes a clue near a culvert, the past she has been trying to survive begins pulling her back toward the truth — about her family, about the motel, and about what really happened along those backroads.
She is not looking for danger. She is not looking for love. But mud season has a way of uncovering both.
And then there is Jonah Rusk.
Fire captain. Steady hands. Big heart. The kind of man who knows the woods, the weather, and the danger of rushing water.
He is not there to save Sienna from herself. He is there to stand beside her while the ground gives way.
That is one of the things I love most about writing romantic suspense: the love story does not happen apart from the danger. It happens inside it. Trust is built in the middle of fear. Attraction sparks while evidence is surfacing. Two people have to decide, sometimes quickly, whether they are safer alone or stronger together.
About the Series
Four books. Four seasons. One river full of secrets.
Androscoggin After Dark is dark, atmospheric North Country romantic suspense — old motel rooms, buried crimes, dangerous backroads, slow-burn heat, and a river that never forgets.
This series is dark. It deals with violence against women, buried crimes, predatory silence, and the way small towns can protect the wrong people for far too long.
But it is also about women being believed.
It is about records finally holding.
It is about love that does not ask a woman to become smaller in order to be chosen.
And it is about the North Country itself — the river, the roads, the old motels, the mud, the trees, the diners, the places that look quiet until you realize how much they remember.
Reading Order
- When the River Freezes
- When the River Thaws
- When the River Runs
- When the River Burns
The books are best read in order, because each one follows a new romance and mystery while carrying the larger river story forward.
To everyone who read Book One, posted about it, messaged me, reviewed it, shared it, bought signed copies, or simply cheered me on: thank you.
This series exists because I finally stopped talking myself out of writing the kind of story I wanted to read — dark, local, romantic, suspenseful, atmospheric, and rooted in a place I know deeply.
Book Two is here.
The river is thawing.
And it has not given everything back yet.
Available Now
When the River Thaws
Book Two in the Androscoggin After Dark series.
