Book 1 covered the struggle of Anake with extremely good equestrian results, but ends in her serious nervous breakdown which lands her in a clinic in Arizona. Andre continues to expand their equestrian production business to include a new grand facility in Santa Ynez and several important facilities around Wellington, Florida. In this endeavor he is greatly assisted by Renata who agrees to marry him in spite of his ironclad loyalty to Madison who progresses rapidly from puberty into womanhood with astounding dressage achievements along the way. Together, Andre and Renata expand the company's board of directors to include Brian and Laura Forrester, a very influential financial couple in Illinois to work alongside John and Mary Murchison, Anake's friends. Rolf contracts with the World Wild Life Fund to save the Siberian wolves and bears and Andre prevails on Anake's psychiatrist to release her to join Rolf in this enterprise. In the meantime he works on an agreement with an Australian dressage aspirant living in Germany with her Danish Olympian husband to join forces with Anake to participate in a range of European championship dressage shows. He takes the family to Brazil to formally marry Renata and with Carlos, her father, they venture to Sao Paulo to arrange for the formation of a Brazilian subsidiary, as previously envisaged. Renata and Madison continue on to Europe to work with Anake on her freestyle choreography largely composed by Madison. Andre' flies in to give her a final boost several days before important championship shows. This places Anake in serious contention for a seat on the US Olympic Dressage Team as it culminates in her spectacular upset of the leading Dutch female dressage queen on her home turf. It causes the US Equestrian Federation to offer her a berth on the Olympic team, which Andre declines in favor of her competing for a place on the team at Gladstone where she succeeds spectacularly-all without removing her tinted spectacles. With the stakes that high Andre involves himself in Anake's training in England right down to the wire of her Grand Prix Freestyle performance which earns her an Olympic gold medal, placing her beyond reproach and able to appear in public without her spectacles. It earns Andre and Anake permanent places in each other's hearts."