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

“We stopped by your room,” Josey says, sinking into the chair. She grins at Ryan before turning her attention to Dante. Becca glances at Ryan, her mouth twisted into a halfhearted attempt at a smile, and then she looks away. What’s that look for?Ryan wonders. He’d ask but Josey’s already talking a mile a minute. “I knocked but maybe you weren’t in yet? Three twenty-eight, right? That’s what the guy at the counter wrote down when he handed you your key and there’s a handicapped sign on the door—”


“Josey,” Becca warns, her throaty voice low. When her sister gives her a quizzical look, she shakes her head in a tight, subtle gesture that Ryan doesn’t miss.


Josey frowns at her. “What? I just said—”


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