Paris Locked eBook

Artist Marian arrives in Paris for her debut exhibition, but the City of Light casts long shadows, and what should be a triumphant moment in her career becomes entangled with her last desperate attempt to save a marriage haunted by unresolved grief for a child.

When Marian and Jason affix a lovelock to the Pont des Arts—a symbolic gesture to reaffirm their love after Jason’s infidelity—they unwittingly set in motion a tragedy that ripples through Paris. Right-wing politicians rush to blame the city''s undocumented immigrants and Marian finds herself locked in a moral quagmire where guilt and family responsibilities intersect with public prejudice and personal duty.

"Paris Locked" explores how the past becomes both sanctuary and prison. In a city where lovers immortalize their devotion with metal locks on romantic bridges criss-crossing the Seine, Marian must confront how actions lock people in—and lock others out—of the narratives they believe define them.

Marian sees the world through the eyes of an artist, using her own art and the art of others to understand her own life. Visiting Chantilly, she is struck by a Poussin painting that seems to change the direction of her life. Marian is often short of words but Nicolas Poussin, Hieronymus Bosch and Roy Lichtenstein seem to express what she cannot.

Working with a Tunisian woman on the exhibition, Marian watches the other woman bravely navigate a life even more complex than her own.

Marian faces the ultimate question: When the key to redemption lies in confronting your darkest truths, can you find the courage to unlock the past that holds you captive?