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

But they can’t. Dante sighs and pushes Ryan down the aisle to the landing. As he takes the seat beside him, Ryan notices Jacoby out on the ice, looking their way, and he can almost hear what he’d say. “You should be careful about that guy,”like he did with Noah. Ryan wonders if Jacoby saw the kiss and if so, what he’s thinking now. He’ll have to talk to him about it if he moves back on campus—when he’s out of this chair—because he’ll invite Dante up to the room and Jacoby’s just going to have to deal, that’s all there is to it.


You’re jumping ahead of yourself here,he thinks. Sure, he’ll be out of the chair, though he doesn’t know when, but Jacoby might get a new roommate by then, it might not even come to that, he just has to wait and see. And he really hates waiting.


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