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

Brushing the hair back from Dante’s face, Ryan kisses his forehead and asks, “Are you getting sleepy?”


Dante nods, wraps both arms around Ryan’s own, and sighs. “It’s been a long day,” he admits. From here he can see the digital clock on the van’s dashboard and it’s almost quarter after five—too late to practice now. “I’ll just get to the rink early tomorrow,” he says. He doesn’t have to work, right? So he’ll get up at dawn, head to the rink, skate after the hockey team leaves the ice. He won’t have to leave by noon, or two, or even four if he doesn’t want to—he has nothing to do but practice. It’s just as he’s always dreamed, isn’t it? All the time in the world for his skating. So why doesn’t it feel as great as he thought it would? With another sigh, he mumbles, “Maybe I should call Bobby—”


Chapter 84