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 can’t blame yourself,” Erika told him. “Kensuke not knowing how to react when things aren’t easy is certainly not your fault—either one of you.”


“There was more to it than that. He saw a picture of B-boy on my phone. A…dirty one. He got really sad for a second, and then really mad.”


“Oh,” Erika said. “Even so…It’s still not your fault. And let’s try to stay positive. Call some of his friends again, Jesse. Maybe he’s with one right now.”


“I shouldn’t have come down so hard on him,” Tom Alan lamented.


“You didn’t, love. Not at first.”


“What about later? Yeah.” Tom Alan was on his phone as well. “I’m calling to see if a patient was brought in who was in a car accident near the train station. The, um, Camaro that hit…” He had to take a breath. “That hit the tree?” There was a pause. “No. I’m not. His family isn’t around. I know. But this kid doesn’t have—”


“What?” Tom Alan mouthed it at the rearview mirror.


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