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

“Now you relax,” Dante tells him. “If you’re too wound up, it’ll hurt. Just relax, baby.” He starts to kiss him again, long, lingering kisses that unwind the nervousness inside him, and his fingers strum along Ryan’s skin, rubbing the tension away. Soon he feels like honey, melted and spread out across the bed. Kissing the tip of his nose, Dante murmurs, “Be right back.”


“Where are you going?” Ryan sighs. The bed shakes as his boyfriend climbs off. “We never bought condoms, did we?”


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