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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“I truly did,” Rocky continued, “until Booger got between us. There wasn’t much might in our tiny runt, for sure, but he elicits a great deal of fear with just his look under certain circumstances. He’s an animal…untamed…My protector…my Booger…forever in my soul. I want you to know right off, Jesse, Booger is an ally, not an enemy, or an enemy dressed as an ally, because the world is full of those. Except for that brief moment when he wouldn’t shove me back, he never treated me like anything other than one of the blokes, no matter what anyone else called me, be it politely and out of confusion, or cruelly.”


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