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

For a long moment, she doesn’t speak, and Ryan feels his irritation grow. Can’t she see he’s in the middle of packing here? So she brought him a suitcase, great, thanks, okay you can leave now,he thinks, and the words are on the tip of his tongue when she sighs. “I know this trip means a lot to you,” she starts, but that’s not what she really wants to say, Ryan can see that when she shakes her head. “I want you to have a good time, honey, really I do. I think you need this. I think it’ll be good for you.”


“I plan on having a good time,” Ryan mutters. She came in here to tell him that?


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