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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“You’re eighteen? For real?” Erika offered a hand.


“Hundred percent.” Kensuke glanced at the ice, then back up with a look that might have been contrition. “I wouldn’t get no one in trouble like that, especially Tom Alan.” When he fished out his I.D., the bravado returned. “See? Dude’s getting all attitudinal over nothing.”


“Speaking of attitude, lose yours.” Erika took the license once Kensuke was steady on his feet. If it wasn’t fake, he was of legal age, close to nineteen, in fact, even if he would be heading back to high school in a week or so.


“I flunked a couple times.” He stared ahead, to the door Jesse had gone through. “I coulda gone to summer school or really just taken the final until I passed it, but I want to…I don’t want to…”


“Maybe. And I lied to coach Gingerlicious because I was scared I’d age out of hockey. What’s the big? ‘Cept for my c—?”


“Shut it!” Tom Alan hadn’t gone far.


“Don’t tell her.” Kensuke suddenly seemed almost scared.


Chapter 19