Julie Berenson is a young widow at 25 years of age, and her husband left her with two unexpected gifts. He left her with a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now, four years later, twenty-nine-year-old Julie is far too young to never have love again.

Julie decides that after of a couple years of grieving her husband’s death that it is time to start dating again. This is when Julie meets Richard Franklin; a nice, hard working man who soon falls madly in love with her. Julie is not so sure about Richard though; there is just something about him, that isn’t right to her. When Richard gets back from a business trip Julie brakes up with him. After the brake up Julie realizes that, she likes her best friend Mike Harris. Mike is a down-to-earth really loving guy, who was her deceased husband’s best friend.

While Mike and Julie fall deeper into their growing relationship, weird things start to happen to Julie…

I really enjoyed this book. It has suspense, romance, and anything else you can imagine. The end of The Guardian is a real cliff hanger. I couldn’t but the book down. I thought that it was absolutely fantastic; I would mainly recommend this book to women, who have already read any of Nicholas Sparks’s books or prefer romance novels, as I do. Sparks is an amazing writer and all of his books are so amazing! I always feel like I am there in the story with the extremely well developed characters. Sooo, if you enjoy feeling involved in the story, Nicholas will put you in the story as you read it!

I have never read a book that actually made me feel almost every emotion. I cried, laughed, and just couldn’t put it down because I had to find out what happened next. I just can’t explain it into words, but I just LOVE this book. I have read it several of Spark’s novels and I believe this is one of the best so far. It surprised me with the added bonus of suspense with his typical romance.