Being part of an Olympic skating pair should be excitement enough for one life, but for Erika that's only the beginning. Her skating partner, Tom Alan, is her ex-husband, who fell in love with former British ice dancer Milo, and all three of them live together and raise her daughter, whose father is Erika's ex-boyfriend, Bill, a rabid hockey fan who is old friends with Milo. Whew! As if that's not enough, Erika still loves Bill, loves Tom Alan, and might just love Milo, too. Add a couple of troubled teenagers to the pile, and suddenly training for the Olympics is the easy part. But Erika's never been a fan of the conventional, and one way or another the four of them will find a way to make their strange tangle of love, sex, and family work.

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“That’s better. So I suppose tonight you and Milo will be having make-up sex instead of just regular sex?”


Milo bragged about their nightly ritual every morning. “I’m not wasting a moment with this honking yank’s honking dank when we’re in the same time zone.” Milo was crude, funny, juvenile, and adorable. “We’ll leave the door ajar, in case you’d like to watch.” Erika loved him almost as much as she loved Tom Alan—”Since, you know, you’re not getting any—” even when he was a bitch. The duo hadn’t skipped a night in the five days they’d been staying at the house. The HVAC system had recently been overhauled. Though Erika had never taken Milo up on his offer to peek in, now she could hear them through the heat vent in her room.


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