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 wasn’t going to,” Bobby sneers, but his hand drifts to his own waist, forgetting the jacket, and Dante wonders where it would have landed if he hadn’t said a word. “What are you doing?”


Dante doesn’t answer. Instead he riffles through his bag, under his skates, looking for the keys he just dropped in. His fingers brush over cool metal and with a muffled jangle, he pulls them out again. As he takes the Later Skater key off his ring, he tells Bobby, “I’m leaving. I don’t need to sit here and have you gawk at me all damn day. Ryan’s waiting.”


“I thought you were going to practice,” Bobby says. When Dante tosses the key onto the desk, he adds, “You walk out now, man, don’t bother coming back. You leave like this and you’re fired.”


Chapter 74