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

“I’m not going to get better doing sit-ups and leg lifts,” he says. He’s pouting, he can feel the downward pull of his mouth, and he crosses his arms in front of his chest, bitter. “I have to get back out there, Mom. I have to start doingthings again, things that don’t involve you and Dad watching over my shoulder, waiting for me to fuck up so you can come running to my side.”


Her mouth twists into an angry scowl. “Watch your mouth,” she mutters. “You don’t use words like that, Ryan, not with me.”


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