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

She stands in the hall wearing an oversized T-shirt and leggings, her hair pulled up on the top of her head in a floppy ponytail, and she breaks into a wide grin when she sees him. “Hey!” she cries, like they’re old friends who haven’t seen each other in years. “We missed you guys at dinner.”


Dante holds the door open just a few inches and stands behind it so she can’t gawk at him half-naked. “We ate in,” he says through a forced smile. “Josey, this isn’t really a good time…”


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