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

“That way of thinking puts things in, like, perspective, right? And if you think about it, it’s really, really true. Even you guys have more life ahead of you than behind.”


Erika laughed. “Even us old folks, yup.”


“Almost certainly,” Tom Alan said. “At least that’s how it should be. Eighteen was right down the middle for my mom. That was an exception, I hope. I pray every night no one else I care about has their life cut so short.”


“Huh?” He seemed surprised, as if he’d been talking more to himself.


“Typing a note to Kensuke.” Tom Alan frowned. “Begging for forgiveness. Insisting he write back. Pleading with him to write back. I’ll edit it before I hit send.” He shrugged. Etsuko smiled. “I don’t know, Kiki. When do we walk away? Like Mrs. Wahl said, I can’t raise someone else’s kid.”


“I don’t know,” Erika admitted. She reached for the baby. “I guess that’s up to him. And maybe he already has.”


Chapter 72