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

Ryan ignores that. He rubs at the space between Dante’s shoulder blades, a soothing rhythm that makes his eyes slip closed. “Hoagies, maybe?” he asks. Dante purrs an incoherent answer, savors the touch on his back, Ryan’s warmth along his side. “Why do I have to pick something?” his boyfriend asks. “What do you like to eat?”


“I picked last night,” Dante reminds him. He snuggles closer, drapes an arm around Ryan’s waist, buries his face into his lover’s side and sighs, content. He could lay like this for the rest of the night. “Get anything you want. Hoagies are good.”


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