When I read this, I did not know it was the third in a series. I don't feel that it made much of a difference though. I thought the book had very good potential, but too many bad things kept happening to the hero and heroine. It gets to a point where you want to scream, "enough already!" It was pretty good-I rate it at 3 1/2 stars. ( )

"I love epic storytelling and real history in my historical romance. When Shirl Henke is good on that score, she's better than most of the standard romance fare. Here? She isn't very good."

http://romancepicayune.blogspot.com/2008/06/deep-as-rivers.html ( )