Nicholas Sparks is one of my favorite authors of all time. I love his novels because they have great romances, great story lines, and they are all set in North or South Carolina. The scenery in the south is so pretty and just by reading his novels I want to go there so bad! The most recent novel I read by Nicholas Sparks was Safe Haven. This novel takes place in South Carolina and it is about a mysterious woman who moves to a small town. She pretty much keeps to herself and works at a local diner. The other main character in the book is a widowed man with two children who owns the local store. They meet and it was pretty much love at first sight for him. However, she was so secretive and mysterious that she basically stayed away. She was always really friendly to his little daughter though. As the story unfolds we find out her secrets and they end up falling in love. The climax of the book is when her husband comes back to kill her and sets the house on fire. She saves her loves children and everything works out in the end. J