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

But suddenly Ryan’s pulling away. He snatches the menu where it’s fallen to the floor and laughs at the consternation that flickers across Dante’s face. “What—” he starts, groggy with lust. Seeing the gleam in his boyfriend’s eyes as he looks over the menu, Dante slaps his shoulder. “Ryan! That’s not fair.”


“More loving later,” Ryan tells him with a grin. “I’m starving. So did you want the spaghetti or what?”


Dante pouts. Wiping the saliva from his neck, he mumbles, “I want you to keep doing whatever it was you were doing two seconds ago, is that too much to ask?”


“You know I’ll gladly pick up right where we left off,” Ryan says. “Afterwe eat. Spaghetti?”


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