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

Dante kisses him again. “I know that. I know you’re still healing. I know that one day years from now we’ll be lying tangled together after making love and you won’t even be able to see the scars, they’ll be so faint.” Taking Ryan’s chin in hand, he raises it until they’re face to face. There are tears in his own eyes, as well. “I love you, Ryan. You.Your legs don’t really have much to do with that one way or the other.”


Ryan’s chin crumples, his lips pulling down into a harsh frown as he struggles to hold back tears. “If you still want me to leave—” Dante begins.


“You can stay.” This time Dante’s kiss lands on his lips, and his boyfriend wipes away a stray tear that courses down his cheek. Taking a deep breath, Ryan sighs. He can do this. For Dante…“Okay.”


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