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

His boyfriend kisses him, a tender press of lips, the only part of their bodies touching. A gentle tongue slips into him as his hands find their way to Dante’s chest, his fingers rubbing over nipples as hard as ice. “Dante,” he sighs again, the word lost in their kisses, and his hands smooth up over taut muscles, around his boyfriend’s neck to fist in the waves at his nape. “Please.”


Dante eases down beside him, the covers keeping them apart. Ryan doesn’t think he’s ever wanted anyone or anything as much as he wants this boy right now. “Please,” he says again when Dante pulls away to look at him. He’s close to begging, his throat thick with emotion, his eyes tearing until the room around him shimmers like stars. Here’s the part where Dante slips beneath the blanket and his naked flesh kisses Ryan’s own. Here’s the part where he takes Ryan in his arms and pushes into him. Here’s the part where they make it love.


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