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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“Because I don’t want to play women’s hockey.”


Erika hadn’t considered that. Well, she had—for half only a second. Shame on her.


“I thought hockey was your whole life’s mission,” Billy said.


“Half of it. Thanks, but no thanks.”


“An opportunity like this doesn’t come around every day, Jesse. It only happened thanks to Tom Alan and Rika.”


“So, they can get a guys’ coach to come over after I transition.”


“I don’t even know how…any of that would work in a situation like this. I mean, it’s not something that happens in a week, right? How long would you want to put these people off?”


“That’s not realistic,” Billy said.


“You’re the best I’ve seen, but the US Ladies Olympic hockey team is nothing to look down on. This is a major opportunity. Major! Once in a lifetime, maybe. You’re incredibly lucky to even—”


Chapter 45