"There are still knights in shinning armor."
The first time Daniel "Lock" Lochlan sees Lauren Van
Schuyler, he is saving her from scaffolding collapsing on
her. As they lie there waiting for rescue, Lock tries to
keep Lauren calm. Between the cold and the shock they tell
each other things that they normally wouldn't say. Lock
requests that after they are rescued Lauren not try to find
him, and so doesn't tell her his full name. Lauren will be forever grateful to the man who saved her
while she was just five weeks pregnant. She has thought
constantly about the time six months ago spent with Lock.
The six hours that changed her whole life. Lauren, now
seven months pregnant, and with no husband, has to decide
alone how best to raise her child. After telling her fiancé Ben that she was not going to
marry him he leaves the United States. It wasn't her he
wanted but what she could bring him, namely money. Ben
left the United States when his company went under, and
instead of helping pay the stockholders back he took up
residency in Switzerland with whatever money he could get
his hands on. There is someone out there who wants the
money Ben has absconded with, and they think Lauren was in
on the fraud. Lauren's father wants Lochlan's security company, and
namely Lock, to protect his daughter. Both Lauren and
Lock's father were army buddies, and though they never kept
in touch Lock feels he owes her father a debt. So Lock
will put up with all of Lauren's complaints to repay this
debt. It doesn't help that all of his protective instincts
go on full alert. Maybe Lock, a widower of twin two-year-old boys, can teach
Lauren what she needs to know about raising children that
can't be found between the pages of a book. The best thing
you can give a child if love. And Lauren can show that it's
all right to care for someone no matter what has happened
in past relationships. PREGNANT AND PROTECTED is a sweet story of caring,
stubbornness and with two two-year-olds humor. Even though
you know the outcome of the story you still enjoy the
ride. I can't imagine having three children in diapers at
the same time, or all the antics that Lauren and Lock are
in for. This would be a story worth coming back to.
Reviewed by Hunter McKenna
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted September 1, 2003
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