The Cameron’s have a wonderful loving family, a billion dollar racing business, and are on their way to a FASPRO championship finish. Then the parents are violently murdered leaving their three adopted children emotionally bereft with their security yanked out from under them. Julia, the oldest, is now not only responsible for taking care of her teenage twin brothers but she must keep the business going to support all the racing families dependent on their company. If that wasn’t difficult enough, everyone but their closest friends think Julia is responsible for her parent’s murder. Roane Jameson, the head of FASPRO security, has been assigned the task of solving the Cameron murder quickly, and he needs to succeed in the worst way. It can’t be that difficult, he only has one suspect.

Center Ring is the second book in the FASPRO Racing series by Sutton Fox and is just as good as the first book. I love this series. Ms. Fox has a cast of interesting characters that you can’t help but like and cheer for. You can read this story without reading the first book, and it won’t harm this story. But why miss out on the tale in the first book, as it is a marvelous story too.

In Center Ring, all three of the Cameron children were adopted and came from tough backgrounds, and it is this legacy that has the police and race officials sure that Julia must have had something to do with her parents deaths because now she inherits everything. But these people don’t know Julia, stuff isn’t what is important to Julia, the people are what is important. Roane has his own past issues that keeps him from trusting his heart and instincts that tell him Julia is innocent. His training as a former police officer says the murderer is most likely someone close to the victims who has the most to gain and that is Julia. But things in this case just do not add up, and Roane can’t find anything to indicate Julia is involved. Then there is the physical attraction between Julia and Roane besides being on different sides of the murder issue, could either of these damaged individuals ever learn to trust enough to have a relationship? And if Julia didn’t commit the murders who did and are Julia and her brothers the next targets? This story is full of intrigue, danger, high stakes, emotional family issues, and romance all blended together in a wonderful tale set in the fast paced racing world. I loved it and highly recommend this series. I can’t wait for book three!

Reviewed by: Stephanie B.