Locked In Love Series
Locked In Love P1
Part One
He who holds the key can unlock the heart...
Sabrina
Being jilted at the altar is supposed to suck, but when Sabrina Darren's fiancé stands her up at an elegant wedding in Paris, it's almost freeing. Before she can enjoy escaping a romance-less future and never having that big moment of being in love, she has to figure out how to confront the uglier side effects. Like the fact her fiancé was the key to a merger for her family's publishing company. And that her sister was sleeping with him all along.
Sabrina avoids facing the music, though. When she wanders the streets of Paris and gets stuck near the famous locks of love fence, a surprisingly helpful stranger manages to distract her.
There's something secretive about her hero, but on a whim, she invites him to share her honeymoon week with her. At the end of it, though… a big surprise threatens to unravel her world.
Nate
Stuck in an acting career where everyone knows him and wants a piece of his fame, Nate Murphy would love a chance to hide and just be. Skipping out of a press conference, he takes his friends' advice to lie low for the small break between filming movies. But meeting a bride on the run shifts his priorities for lying low.
A weeklong fling is just what he needs to take a step back from reality. It's even more exciting because she has no clue who he really is. With them sticking to no details and him shaving his beard, it's as incognito as he'll get.
Once their agreed-upon time is cut short with the paparazzi getting too close, he wonders how he'll be able to share his identity without it being the surprise that might break her.
Locked In Love P2
Part Two
He who holds the key can unlock the heart...
Sabrina
A positive pregnancy test seems like the last thing she needs, especially after her wedding fell apart, with her family's publishing company nearing bankruptcy, and her sister trying to interfere with her happiness. As she balances finding an elusive man to coordinate his biography, she debates how to tell Nate that their short fling left a lifelong impression in the form of a baby.
Torn with the need to hunt down Nate and the expectations to travel for work, she's got no time to focus on the fact she'll be a mother soon. When her best friend shows her a tabloid of Sabrina in bed with one of the world's most famous actors, she's stunned. And guarded. So when she flies to New York for a meeting about the biography, she's not prepared to see Nate there at the filming site. It feels good to be reunited, but his fame is a curse she doesn't want to subject their child to. Besides, it's not like he'd stick around to actually start a family with her, right?
Nate
It doesn't matter that he left her a goodbye note at the hotel in Paris. Sabrina doesn't answer any calls or texts. Desperate to find her, he enlists the help of his friends. His uncle and ex continue to stir up trouble, too, further pulling him from happiness. Seeing that tabloid doesn't help one bit either. Yet, when he crosses paths with Sabrina on the set, he's determined to show her that he's fresh out of secrets.
Protecting her from the reach of the paparazzi isn't a simple feat. He tries to work around filming to keep her in his life, but he's not the only one who notices she seems nervous, as though she's still keeping secrets from him.
Just when he wants to cling to the possibility of retiring early to focus on a real relationship—hoping that Sabrina isn't just another gold-digger out to hurt him—she drops one heckuva bombshell on him… one he's not sure how to accept.
Locked In Love P3
Part Three
He who holds the key can unlock the heart...
Sabrina
Dropping the news of her pregnancy comes at the worst time, when Nate has to return to set, and she feels guilty to run home so soon. Once she's there though, her fiancé is adamant about taking her back. More family drama isn't something she wants to deal with when she's starting her own little family, but that's silly too. She'll be a single parent. She told Nate that she'd handle it.
Missing him complicates that goal. Wishing he could be there with her so she wasn't alone contradicts her desire to be a single mom. And trying to figure out how to keep their publishing house running is a stickier issue.
When Nate shows up, though, she needs to decide if she can lock in on the love she's feeling for this man who isn't such a fling after all. But is he ready for a future in a small town, out of the spotlight? Just to be with her?
Nate
Blessed with another temporary break in filming, Nate follows his friends' advice to see Sabrina. While there are a lot of details to concentrate on if he wants to retire and start a family with her, he can't stand being apart from her.
Coming to her small town has its moments. Between proving his commitment to Sabrina in front of her best friend, a new cop, and her dad, Nate is delayed. He comes to the first appointment for their baby, though, and being at her side feels like the only place he ever needs to be.
When Sabrina's fiancé shows up to stir trouble, he comes with a partner Nate least expected to face like this. There's no chance he wants another man to be a parent to his child though, so when push comes to shove, can he determine how to lock down on the love of his life and keep her with him forever?