Winter Blues is not a story of a love beginning, but a love surviving. It's a story of imperfections and frustrations. A story that's rarely told but often lived. A sometimes unpretty story, but then real stories normally are... Away from all that they know, all that brought them together, Darlene and Reid find the only troubles their marriage has ever faced in their new home of Chicago. They find a test of loyalties, of strength, of love, when all that they expected to find was their happy ever after. Where Reid finds their new life a breeze, Darlene finds it a storm. Reid powers ahead in his new publishing job, revelling in his success while he fails at home. Darlene is jobless, friendless, and increasingly Reid-less; trapped in a perpetual winter when all she craves is the warmth she's grown accustomed to. She finds comfort in music that has been such a huge part of her life, eventually performing at a local bar and striking up a friendship with its owner. That friendship threatens to expand into something more when everything Darlene is lacking in their marriage is offered to her in the form of the irresistible Blue. Will she deny the consequences and accept him? Or will Reid fight the odds and find a way to recharge their relationship? Happy ever afters are for fairy tales...