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

“His fault,” Dietrich mutters again, even as the coaches that lead him away shake their heads in disagreement.


No one is listening to him. Let’s see your daddy buy your way out of this,Ryan thinks. He needs to get into his chair again—he’s on the floor and it’s cold down here, the tiles are like ice seeping through his jeans. But when he tries to get up, Dante’s there to hold him down. “Shh, don’t move,” his lover whispers, cradling him close. “Ryan, try not to move your legs.”


“My legs are fine,” Ryan assures him. At least, he thinksthey are. Already the rush is leaving him, the heat of the moment, and with a weary sigh, he asks, “Do you know where first aid is?”


Grimly, Dante nods. “I can find it,” he says.   24


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