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

“You want to go back to the hotel?” Ryan asks. “They just left. If we go back now, we’ll get the same shuttle—”


“I mean somewhere else,” Dante explains. He rubs at his eyes until they’re red-rimmed and bloodshot. “I mean somewhere not here. Just the two of us. Maybe that other rink? Is it open yet?”


Ryan shrugs. “I don’t know,” he admits.


Rising to his feet, Dante climbs over the seats and then takes the handlebars of Ryan’s wheelchair to back him down the aisle. “Let’s find out.”


Chapter 152