Happiness is a Shade of Blue

by Venetia Di Pierro

Sunny Australia and Olympic hopes are in Gloria’s rearview mirror but the ranch in winter is a giant Christmas present just waiting for Gloria to unwrap. Reunited with Lo after months apart, the horses waiting in their stables, the town decked out in festive decorations, Gloria and Lo are in love and blissful. But beneath the cheer is a layer of frost. Christmas is a reminder of the son Lo lost and she is content to hibernate beneath a mountain of work at the office. To hold on to her dressage dreams, Gloria must convince the best, but grumpiest, dressage trainer in town, Caroline, to take her on as a pupil. The arrival of Caroline’s irritatingly handsome and talented nephew, Oliver, is about stir up trouble in ways that none of them could have predicted.