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

Lover.With Jared, it had never been love. Sex, that was it. Fuck buddies maybe, and though he never liked that phrase, it sums up perfectly what they were to each other. There was never this afterglow that feels like the morning sun warming his body and igniting his blood, never these pale eyes watching him sleep, never these lips kissing him awake. “Hey yourself,” he whispers. When Ryan smiles, he says, “Kiss me again.”


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