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

First Josey. Oh my God,Ryan thinks, he never knewa girl could be so damn annoying. Thank the Lord he never had one crush on him like that, he’d have to hurt somebody. All through lunch, blah blah blah, she wouldn’t shut the fuck up, wouldn’t take her sister’s hints, wouldn’t even look his way—she only had eyes for Dante. He doesn’t know how many times Becca kicked her under the table, but he saw Josey glaring at her sister now and then, and once he felt a leg swing by his so he knows she tried, at least. Tried to keep her little sister from making a fool of herself but it was too late. Didn’t try hard enough,he muses, sinking lower into the hot water, until the suds tickle his chin. Should’ve tied a napkin around her mouth, that might’ve worked.


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