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

He laughs again, well aware of Becca’s gaze on them, and nudges Ryan’s knee with his beneath the table. Watch it,he thinks—see, this is why he doesn’t like eating out. Last night they ate in the room and it was just the two of them, they could say anything they wanted, make randy comments, blow silly kisses over their plates, exchange bawdy touches while they ate so that by the time they were finished, they were both starving for each other and there was no one else around to stop them from making out afterward. But here it feels as if everyone’s watching them, and when Josey comes back to the table, she’ll start talking to him again and drown out everything else. He just wants Ryan all to himself—he’s going to suggest they order in more often.


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