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

Becca agrees. “It looked broken to me. And he has little butterfly stitches above his eyebrow, and his arms are all scratched up. Bruises on his neck, like hickeys almost. Damn, you did a good number on him.”


With a laugh, Ryan winks at Dante and tells her, “I tried.”


“So he’s gone home?” Dante asks, confused. He frowns at Josey and wants to know, “Why?”


“Ryan’s mom called the president of the club,” Josey says, shoveling food into her mouth. “Threatened to sue them big time for letting one of their skaters attack her handicapped son. She really laid it on thick, I’m telling you. From the way I hear it, she was all ready to have the clubdisbanded if he wasn’t suspended from State.”


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