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

“Ring the bell so she’ll hear you,” Ryan tells him, straightening the sheets on the bed. Quietly Dante opens the sliding doors just enough to squeeze through, and from the other side of the glass, he blows Ryan another kiss before he disappears.


His mother starts to jiggle the knob again. God,he thinks—what if he hadn’t locked that door? It’s a habit he’s gotten into now that he’s home, one he picked up in the dorm because some of the guys on his hall used to just barge into a room, any room, looking to bum shampoo or money or food. Ryan edges his chair around the bed, presses at his crotch in an effort to stop the pounding that throbs through him…


Chapter 80