It's post World War II. Young Rose is lured to Chicago by her aunt's letter describing it as a fantastic, modern city full of promise. She discovers too late that reality is vastly different.
Gayle has always loved horses, reading and writing. She was born in Saskatchewan, lived in Alberta, and moved to British Columbia in her thirties. She has been a trail rider, barrel racer, western pleasure and dressage rider. After a career as an insurance claims investigator spanning more than three decades, she retired to a small horse farm on Vancouver Island.
