When Dreams Vanish

A tragedy brought Andreas to a new team in a country more than four thousand miles from home. In a terrorist's attack the woman he loved with all his heart lost her life. Elena was the girl with whom he had wanted to spend the rest of his life. She was the sunshine on all his days. A bullet robbed them of their dreams. To cope he needed to get as far away as possible from things that reminded him of losing Elena. He adjusted to his new team quickly and soon became their star striker. The fans loved him. Before his second season with the team began, he became widely known in the city. But the loss of his soulmate had left an emptiness in his heart he thought he would not ever fill again.

All that changed one evening at a figure skating competition where Olivia, a hometown girl, won the country's title and his heart. Each of their meetings made their hearts dance, but their previous commitments caused them to keep their feelings for each other secret and hidden from each other.

Before they could spend much time together and explore their love for each other a car accident threatened to claim Olivia's life and strike Andreas with another heart-breaking blow. While many of Olivia's injuries slowly healed, the accident left her paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. The road ahead for Olivia and Andreas looked hopeless. Would Olivia ever skate again? Most people doubted it. Her coach took on new skaters. Many of her friends left her. The man who had promised to love her always deserted her. Life for Olivia seemed not worth living. But Andreas could not abandon her. He could not forget the beautiful girl he had seen skate gracefully on an evening when he needed to find relief from the memories of a love lost and a brutal game. He realized it was Olivia who could make his dreams come true, and in her darkest hour he declared his love for her.d