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

The windbreakers have their names on the left breast, the logo and contact information for the restaurant on the back. There’s a patch, also, something that will fit nicely on his right shoulder, the cameras will get a good shot of it when he races. “I’ve bought a commercial, too,” Mr. Vasquez tells him, handing over the shirts, the jackets, the patch. “Thirty seconds after the five hundred is aired, so the name will stick in the minds of the people at home watching the race. And we’ll have the TVs here tuned into the competitions—there’s a mariachi band coming in, tequila on the house, fried ice cream to everyone if you win.”


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