The Burn Line (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Stearns Brook Press, 2026

9798997051129

Serie: Buch 1 von 1 - Androscoggin After Dark

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Paperback. Before the town had secrets, it had systems.Berlin, New Hampshire, 1974. The mills are running, the stacks breathe over the valley, and the Androscoggin carries the weight of everything built along its banks.Twenty-two-year-old Julie Moreau knows the city by its working parts: mill whistles, shift changes, bakery windows glowing against dirty snow, motel rooms that never stay clean for long, and the back stairs, side doors, and alleys women learn to notice before anyone teaches them why.Julie cleans offices, boardinghouse rooms, and the places respectable men leave dirty. She keeps a blue notebook because paper is safer than speaking, and because in a town built on ledgers, routes, debts, and silence, writing something down may be the only way to survive it.Then women begin vanishing into explanations.A bus ticket south. A locked room at the North Star Motel. A missing office key. A yellow ribbon near the lower river. A girl in a green coat who knows too much and can barely speak at all.Each clue seems small enough to dismiss. Families have reputations to protect. Men with money have friends in the right offices. Winter makes accidents easy to believe.But Julie is watching.Her search leads through Main Street bakeries, church basements, boardinghouse kitchens, mill offices, motel ledgers, winter roads, and the old boom piers along the Androscoggin-remnants of the river's logging past, when timber moved along routes older than the crimes later built on top of them.Before the Burn Line moved women, it moved wood. Before it became evidence, it was infrastructure. Before anyone called it evil, it was useful.As Julie follows the trail, she uncovers something larger than one disappearance: a hidden system built from money, favors, debt, access, and official records men thought they controlled. Every locked room has a reason. Every missing page has a history. Every road points somewhere, even the ones no one admits exist.But Berlin has another map.North Country women keep keys in flour tins. Warnings in recipe boxes. Proof in coat linings, library files, and rooms men were never meant to enter. They pass names through kitchens, mark danger with color, and remember what the official story leaves out.Julie is not a detective. She is a cleaner, a daughter, a witness, and a young woman learning that being underestimated can be dangerous in both directions.The closer she gets to the truth, the more the city tightens around her: a police officer with a careful voice, a motel clerk who knows more than she says, a priest who realizes too late how concern can become a leash, a powerful family with old debts to hide, and Victor Arsenault, a young man learning that a story does not have to be true to become the record.On a January night when firelight hits the ice, Julie must decide what can be saved, what must be hidden, and what must be changed before the men chasing her understand what she has moved beyond their reach.No witnesses means us.The Burn Line is a standalone historical crime thriller and prequel to the world of Androscoggin After Dark: a dark, atmospheric North Country story of mill-town secrets, missing women, corrupted records, river history, and one young woman determined not to let the official version be the only story that survives. Berlin, NH, 1974: cleaner Julie Moreau follows missing women, hidden records, and a dangerous river route into a system built on debt, silence, and power. Independent prequel to the Androscoggin After Dark serie Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Titel
The Burn Line (Paperback)
Autor
Erica R. Buteau
Verlag
Stearns Brook Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-13
9798997051129
Serie
Buch 1 von 1: Androscoggin After Dark

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