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

Dante’s steady gaze is hard to meet. Say something,Ryan prays. He has to remind himself that his boyfriend just woke up, maybe he’s not very coherent right now. Or maybe he doesn’t like how possessive you sound,he thinks, frowning at the pattern his hand has worn into Dante’s pants. Or he’s thinking that all you talk about is sex.But he’s nineteen, sex is foremost on his mind, and with a boy like Dante by his side, how’s he supposed to think of much else?


Before he can stumble through an apology, Dante pokes at the zipper of Ryan’s jeans and asks, “Why can’t you walk?”


That makes Ryan laugh. “There was this accident,” he says, squeezing Dante’s thigh. He can feel the tip of his boyfriend’s dick beneath his palm, and he likes the smile that appears on Dante’s face when he rubs over the encased length. “I could’ve sworn I told you about it.”


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