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

With a grin, he bends down and retrieves the bag, the skates in it heavier than his own. He likes that Mrs. Talonovich thought to stick this in with the rest of Ryan’s things—it says more about her optimism than any words she could’ve said. Ryan willskate again, that’s what these skates tell him, it’s written in the gleaming metal, the worn leather, every inch of the skates themselves when Dante opens the bag to look inside. His boy’s already walking, isn’t he? With help but it’s more than what he was doing two weeks ago, more than he did before they met, and he willskate again, Dante’s sure of it. He just needs to get out on that ice one time and it’ll all come rushing back.


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