The story begins eight years later from the first in this trilogy... with Liberty and Farr in complete happiness and with a growing family.... only Farr longs for a homestead that isn't quite as crowded as the booming town enclosing them. Liberty senses Farr's edginess... and when Rain returns to the homestead, speaking of the virtually untouched land beyond the mountains, Liberty encourages the family to relocate. Rain is excited that his extended family is anxious to move to the land he longs for, bringing the woman he craves along with them... as Amy has changed a lot and Rain's unsure of her feelings towards him... and still seems to make her so darn mad at him everytime they speak.

Rain volunteers to take a woman to her fiance, on his way to the new land. For this reason, he must leave earlier than Farr and Liberty... but he manages to convince them that he needs Amy to come along... "for appearances sake"... while he and a rough riverman escort the spoiled and helpless woman. Amy agrees to go along, mostly because the woman's eyes are on Rain.... while the rough riverman keeps his on the spoiled little rich girl.

Villans Hull Dexter and Hammond Perry return in this story, to add constant chaos and conflict for Rain and Amy, and Eleanor and Gavin during their travels. Though Rain and Amy expressed their love shortly after their travels began, and stayed together to the end... there were numerous conflicts trying to pull them away from each other.

Finally, the author has forgotten the storyteller's rule of "show, don't tell". She kept telling the reader what to think of people, rather than showing examples as to why they should do so. That keeps me at a distance, as a reader, and makes the characters seem contrived. In short, there are better books out there, so read them instead.