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

Standing, Dante stretches for the ceiling, his T-shirt pulling free from his sweatpants to expose the white and blue bodysuit he wears underneath his clothing. “Maybe?” he asks as he turns to lean against the railing so he can look at Ryan. “If it’s cool with your mom, and if you don’t mind—feel free to say no, baby, okay? You know that won’t bother me—but if you think it’ll be okay, maybe I can…I don’t know, maybe come with you guys? This morning. To the doctor’s?” He props one sneakered foot on Ryan’s chair in the space between his knees and shrugs. “I mean, I would really like to go. If you don’t…if you don’t mind.”


Chapter 92