This final book of the Rangeley Lakes series is a reunion of sorts. Romano brings back many of the characters from the previous novels for a final farewell. As with his previous books, he attempted to faithfully describe the rush of current against a thigh, the smell of balsam while kneeling beside a backwoods stream, and what it’s like to tramp over the same trails, paddle a canoe across the same lakes and ponds, wade the same water as those fly-fishing notables of years gone by. Bob Romano knows fly fishing, and he knows the human heart and he writes about them in clear, evocative prose. Romano combines these ingredientsbeautifully…which I enjoyed immensely.” —William G. Tapply, author of the Brady Coyne and the Stoney Calhoun novels “A fine tribute to one of the last wilderness enclaves of New England and to the tough, resourceful, kind-hearted, and ever so independent-minded people who eke out a living there.” —Howard Frank Mosher, author of eight novels including Waiting for Teddy Williams. “I felt like I was right at the water’s edge. An avid angler and talented writer.” —Lewiston Sun Journal Bob Romano lives in the northwest corner of New Jersey with his wife Trish, and their Labrador retrievers, Winslow Homer and Finnegan. For 30 years, they have maintained a camp in the Rangeley Lakes region of western Maine where Romano has set his Rangeley Lakes series of novels: North of Easie, West of Rangeley, Brook Trout Blues, The River King, and River Flowers. He is also the author of a book of essays, Shadows in the Stream.