Locklear flies with "Angels" for Lifetime

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -

Heather Locklear is set to star in "Angels Fall," a Lifetime original movie based on Nora Roberts' best-selling suspense romance novel.

Johnathon Schaech is co-starring in the film, the third of four adaptations of books by Roberts that Lifetime plans to run back-to-back on Monday nights in February.

The first two, "Carolina Moon," starring

Claire Forlani,

Jacqueline Bisset and

Oliver Hudson, and "Montana Sky," starring

John Corbett,

Ashley Williams,

Charlotte Ross and Diane Ladd, have completed production. The fourth one, "Blue Smoke," is in preproduction.

"Angels" centers on Reese Gilmore (Locklear), a chef who is reeling from a shooting spree at her Boston restaurant that left her as the sole survivor. She is slowly starting to put her life back together when she takes a job at a restaurant in Angel's Fist, Wyo., and gets to know the residents of the town, including Brody (Schaech), an annoyingly stubborn yet mysteriously sexy writer. Reece's hard-won happiness and sense of security are threatened, however, when she becomes not only the sole witness to a murder but also the killer's next target.

Locklear most recently starred in ABC's comedy pilot "Women of a Certain Age," starred in the feature "The Perfect Man" and did a multi-episode arc on ABC's "Boston Legal." Schaech's recent credits include the feature "Sea of Dreams" and CBS' TV movie "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter