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 looks up as Dante takes the ice, his sweats discarded, his jacket gone. Now his hair is hidden beneath the football-shaped helmet that the speedskaters use, the yellow covering bright and sunny out there against the white ice. Ryan smiles at the skinsuit his boy wears—his boy,God, that sounds wonderful. He likes the body-hugging fabric, the second skin that shows off Dante’s strong legs, his round ass, the bulge at his crotch. As he starts around the rink, he waves up at Ryan, who raises a hand in return. My boy.He raises the camera to snap off a few shots as Dante picks up speed.


Behind him, footsteps echo down the aisle. Ryan looks up from the camera, surprised, when Jacoby sinks into the seat beside him. “Hey,” he says, nodding at the railing in front of them. He doesn’t look Ryan’s way.


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