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

His clothes are in the top three drawers of the dresser, that’s it. Nothing in the bottom drawer because his mother thinks he might fall out while leaning down. And everything is so neatly folded away, from his socks matched together and rolled tight to his T-shirts to his goddamn boxers, each snap snapped, each pull-string tied, each fucking hem ironed down into place and folded into the drawer. This isn’t his room, it’s his mother’s, everything in here is where she wants it, every piece of clothing folded the way shefolds it. Nothing out of place, nothing amiss. Perfect because he isn’t.


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