Ryan Talonovich is the star of his college hockey team, until an accident during practice leaves him confined to a wheelchair. The doctors say he'll walk again but a new season is already underway and he's been replaced on the team, which leaves him feeling alone and betrayed. What's the use of fighting to get back on the ice now?<br><br>Then he meets Dante Espinosa, a short track skater on the city's speed skating club. Though he has to work overtime to afford his sport, Dante is hell on ice, and dreams of making the cut on the U.S. Olympic Speedskating Team.<br><br>Their love of the ice brings them together, but too many obstacles stand in their way: Ryan's struggle with therapy. The memory of Dante's first boyfriend. Lack of funding to the event, Dante's harassing boss, a skating friend in love with him, and Wil Dietrich, who will do anything to win.

Power Play

He feels Bobby staring at him, trying to will him to look up, meet his gaze. He doesn’t. Bobby’s got quick eyes and thin lips twisted into a perpetual smirk, and a little tuft of stubble down the center of his chin that he’s trying to grow in. “Looks like you missed a spot,” Dante told him once. The glare he got in return was enough to keep him from commenting on it again.


“Dante,” Bobby says softly. He steps closer, Dante knows what’s coming. The shop’s well-lit, true, but this isn’t exactly the best part of town and no one’s passed by their windows in a good five, ten minutes. No one to see the hand that finds its way into the back pocket of Dante’s jeans. The fingers curve around his ass with a familiarity that bothers him. Sidling closer, Bobby brushes against his arm and murmurs, “We can make up that time, if you want.”


Chapter 14