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.

Transitions

Almost as if on purpose, Tom Alan didn’t appear again until Kensuke’s Camaro peeled out of the parking lot. He and Erika rode to the Wahl home in silence—except for inane topics like whether or not Supergirl would still be good over on The WB Network. Erika was a bit surprised Tom Alan had even agreed to join her and Billy at his parents’ for dinner.


“So, you’re an inconsiderate, teenage hoodlum,” Billy said to his brother at the table. “What’s your take on everything?”


Peanut—Burgess—was the exact opposite. He was an honor roll student and a choir boy—literally. “How are things for gay kids at your school?” Tom Alan asked, buttering a third dinner roll. “As far as you know?”


“Seems good to me,” Burgess answered, between bites of the deliciousness that was Mrs. Wahl’s roast chicken dinner.


“You’ve met them both through Billy, right?” Erika asked. “Jesse and Kensuke?”


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