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

There’s a buffet table along one wall, filled with sausages and eggs and fruit, but no one’s in line yet. “I don’t think so,” Josey says. Turning to Dante, she smiles brightly, glances at Ryan, back at him. Lucky me,he thinks, and beneath the table he squeezes Ryan’s knee. “Okay, so last night? Remember I told you I can still skate?” At Dante’s nod, she continues. “Wil threw a fit about that, let me tell you, but the coaches were all like I wasn’t in the fight. Everyone they asked said that I never sicced Becca on him like he claimed. She punched him herself.”


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