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

And yeah, here’s the number, the biggest ad on the first page of the restaurant section. He dials it quickly and, speaking low into the phone so he doesn’t wake Dante, orders two pizzas, one cheese, one pepperoni. When the woman asks for his address, he’s not sure of the exact street so he gives her the name of the hotel. “You’ll need to be in the lobby,” she says. “Our drivers can’t really go to your door.”


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