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

After practice, Ryan’s mother drops Dante off at his apartment. Ryan steals a few sweet kisses in the time it takes her to walk around the van, then the door opens and Dante climbs over him to get out. His hand presses high on Ryan’s thigh as he passes, dangerously close to a place that aches for that touch, but his mom is right there, smiling at them and asking if Dante wants her to swing by in the morning to pick him up? “It’s no problem,” she says, nodding to show that yes, it’s no problem at all. “What time do you boys need to be at the rink?”


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