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

“It burned…the shrapnel, but then I heard the whining and a couple of yelps. The medic was at my side. ‘Find the dogs,’ I said. He tried to pull my shirt away. It was all torn, tattered and sticking to all the blood. It hurt like a motherfucker when he tried. He was pulling skin with the fabric and threads and I shouted, ‘Find the dogs!’” He didn’t shout it then. His voice was still barely loud enough to hear as he shared something else he’d been keeping inside a very long time. “We saved them.” Billy smiled and looked to Erika on one side and Tom Alan on the other, then past him to Milo. “Doctoring soldiers or puppies and a mama…Shawn…that’s the medic’s name. He saved all of them…but one. We did. They made it.”


“And you.” Milo kissed his shoulder. “Thank God.”


“We got them all over here and adopted. Well, we took them. Four dogs…eight siblings…it was a fight. I kept two myself.”


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