Release Date: May 1st 2015

Luke Roberts came to the small lazy town of Kilgore, Texas with one thing on his mind: Forgetting. He wanted to forget why he left. Forget those emerald green eyes that haunted his dreams. And forget how it felt to have his heart ripped out of his chest by a woman who didn’t like the fact that he had a child. It was something he’d been doing a damn fine job of doing, too. Until Reese smashed through every one of his defences, and made him feel again.

Reese Doherty was just trying to do the best for her little girl. So she moved to the little boomtown nearly an hour from where she grew up to be the school nurse for Kilgore’s littlest people. That’s where she met him. The SWAT officer and the man that would change her life forever. The sexy man who liked to drive fast, and live life like it should be lived. He drove her crazy, and became something she could barely live without.

But Luke was a hero. A man used to risking his life to make the world a safer place. Something Reese had to decide whether she could handle or not. Preferably before her and her daughter became too attached.

Just when she’s ready to give him her whole heart, her world takes a huge hit, and everything she thought she knew wasn’t as it seemed.

Luke wasn’t a quitter, though. Damn far from it, and he’d prove to her that he’d be there when the dust settled. Whether she wanted him to be or not.

Review by: Jennifer

(5 stars)

Straying from her usual bike riding hot guy, Lani Lynn Vale starts a new spin off series with the SWAT. First off is Center Mass with Luke, who you might remember from the Freebirds and Dixie Wardens MC. He popped up from time to time in each book, a secondary character that you really hoped would get his own book. Well he finally got one and it was fantastic!

Luke, former military now turned SWAT officer, is a single father to Katy. The circumstances with that situtation were in Boomtown, book 1 of the Freebirds. Now he is being the best father that he can be with help from family and friends, while having a very time consuming job.
Reese, also a single parent, is trying to make the best of everything, doing all that she can for her little girl Rowan.

This book has ex's coming out of the woodwork. First Luke's ex comes back into town and then Reese's ex decides he wants to make her life hell as well. I love that none of Lani Lynn Vale's stories are predictable, you have no clue where this is gonna go. Whatever you think is gonna happen? Well its doesn't! I laughed, I was mad at one point, and I sobbed, that's right sobbed at one point in this story!

This book was worth the wait. Lani Lynn Vale is a one-click and never disappoints with her stories. If you haven't read any, start with Boomtown, I promise you will be hooked!