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Gabriel (Guardian Defenders) Hardcover – March 3, 2021

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David Xavier—and all those he loved or counted as friends—would forever be mouth-watering targets to men of evil intent. His wealth could settle a small country's foreign debt. Because of this, from the moment of his birth, his mother obscured his identity. Reborn as the man named Gabriel, however, he walked free into a world where the innocents and the weak cried out for a defender, for the hand of justice, for a guardian angel. In response, an elite, paramilitary operation, Guardian, rose to stand between the evil men did and those whom they would make their victims. Gabriel was CEO. His goal was worthy and all consuming, but fighting on the side of angels didn’t make his nights less lonely or soothe the ache in his heart for hearth, home, and family. He needed a courageous woman of unflinching integrity, of goodness and honor, to stand at his side. He’d given up hope of finding such a person. He thought he'd found her years ago. The sex had been combustible, but they’d met at the very birth of Guardian, when he hadn’t time for a personal life. Chalk it up to fate or bad timing. Over the years, twenty-eight-year-old, Denver ER nurse, Anna Harriger, watched as all her friends, many of whom were former patients, found their soul mates, got married, and had children. Shoot, she’d been a bridesmaid six times. She figured she was destined to be the “crazy friend” that everyone liked but who, at the end of the day, went home to a solitary apartment. She wanted love. She wanted a family, but she refused to compromise her standards. She’d met her Prince Charming, but unlike the fairytale, after an incendiary night of sex, she’d never seen him again. Chalk it up to fate or bad timing.When events throw them together again, each find their attraction vastly more than simply physical, but once again, Gabriel’s responsibilities pull them apart. After an absence of almost half a year, Gabriel returns for Anna, but she has vanished. He will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to find her and bring her home, but fear dogs his efforts. Who was she running from? Why did she disappear so thoroughly? He knew his Anna. She’d have a very good reason.

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March 3, 2021
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ KMRW LLC (March 3, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 462 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1947178989
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1947178984
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.78 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 1.23 x 9.21 inches

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Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author, Kris Michaels is the alter ego of a happily married wife and mother. She writes romance, usually with characters from military and law enforcement backgrounds.

Kris was born and raised in South Dakota. She graduated many years ago from a high school class consisting of 13 students (yes that is thirteen, eleven girls, and two boys...lucky boys). She joined the military, met her husband, and traveled the world. Today she lives on the Gulf Coast and writes full time.

Kris is an avid people watcher and dreamer. The stories she writes are crafted around the hopes and dreams of a true romantic. She believes love is essential, people are beautiful, and everyone deserves a happy ending.

When she isn't writing Kris enjoys a full life revolving around family, friends, laughing, whiskey, and cold red wine. (Yes cold...don't judge.)

The suggested reading order of Kris' books are as follows:

Jacob

Joseph

A Backwater Blessing

Adam

Jason

Jared

Jasmine

Chief

Jewell

Jade

Anubis

Justin

Montana Guardian

Asp

Drake

Christmas with the Kings

Dixon

Lycos

Gabriel

Passages

Thanatos

Maliki

Tempest

Promises

John

Smoke

Jeremiah

Reaper

Hot SEAL, Silent Knight

The Siege Part 1

The Siege Part 2

Andrew

Phoenix

Frank

Zeke

Valkyrie

All other books are stand alone novels and can be read in any order.

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Johnnie McBrearty

Bravo! Ms. Michaels

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 27, 2023

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This book kept my attention right to the end. I loved the characters and the storyline. I hope to find more books like this from Ms. Michaels!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2023

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So good to read the backstory about Gabriel and Anna and Guardian. After reading the kings of Guardian this book was not anticlimactic! It has everything! I would not have used humorous in connection with Gabriel but really meeting Anna adds that dimension to his life. Ready to keep going! More read time!

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gut wrenching and HEA at the same time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2023

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Excellent story and beginning / background to the series. Kris writes a beautiful story with the reader becoming engrossed with the characters and story. You will not want to put this book down and immediately move to the next in the series.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2023

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Kept my attention throughout. Good plot. Not the average enemies to lovers scenario in so many books. I highly recommend this one and I very seldom recommend a book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2022

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This is a great story that is well worth the time to read. This story has great characters. I love th in s authors books.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2022

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Gabriel is the start of the story, but as it says shrouded in mystery. Now we see more of how Guardian got to be what it is and how Gabriel became who he is. Anna is a hoot and I love that we got to know her in this book since no other story really focuses on her.

There is a trigger in this book with domestic violence and assaults. It accompanies a sad story, but is not a justification.

The story flips from present day to past to present. In that manner the ending has a cliffhanger more defined then the previous cliffhanger that alluded to an important character being sick. Hoping for the best and looking forward to reading more!

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Good start to the series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 11, 2022

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This was a good beginning to the series. It was great or exceptional as I don’t understand why Anna didn’t tell Gabriel about Craig attacking her. I also didn’t understand why Gabriel continued to be best friends with Craig when he knew Craig brutally attacked a woman. For such a moral upright man, the fact that Gabriel continued to call him his best friend was appalling. Then the first time Gabriel saw the bruises on Anna and threatened Craig, didn’t ring true for me. He should’ve whipped his butt right then. Anna not documenting and reporting the bruises from Craig the first time assured there would be a second time. Craig could’ve killed her the second time he beat her and she ran. That’s what police and courts are for, let alone a boyfriend who owns a multinational protection company. On another note, I figured Remi was the culprit. He asked too many questions and was too eager. A good read but not great like the books of Kings of Guardian.

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guardian series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2022

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Best series I’ve ever read. Totally hooked, got them all in audio or digital format.. read them all, awesome…read in order though or you will be a bit lost!

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Totally

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 23, 2021

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Loved loved Anna totally like , like totally.......
This is Gabriel and Anna's story. What made this more fun for me, is that it was set in the 90s. No internet. no smart phones .
The mention of of Dallas and Dysntey television series .

We have a serial killer on the loose and Guaridan Securities are called into help. But it is not the serial killer that Anna has to watch out for. Anna and Gabriel's attaction is hot.
I also loved the fact, neither of them pretended how their felt . It was refreshing.

A love story that builds .

I did enjoyed the narration of Matt Haynes. It take me a couple of words and I settle into his voice.

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Marie P

'Whatever it takes, for as long as it takes'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2022

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Back to where it all began, a dark, dangerous and heart wrenching story but we would expect nothing else from the Guardians series. Gabriel may be a man of huge power who runs one of the most dangerous companies in the world....but Anna is the strength that allows him to continue day after day and I love that here we see a softer, more human side to Gabriel when he interacts with Anna. We also get to see Guardian Security as we know it today take shape and grow.
This is a great series and whilst the timeline of the books is split across Guardian Defenders and Kings of Guardian they all intertwine and overlap.

K. G. A. Alavi

A force for change meets a force of nature

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 9, 2019

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A great story. I can't help feel a little nostalgic for the era this story is set in. This is described perfectly. This is the time I grew up in where mobile phones were not commonplace, people were not instantly contact able, infact most people smart phone today has more features than the spy gear of that era, also encapsulates the attutedes of the era and VHS of course (I remember them well).

Usually I hate prequels, to me they usually feel like spinoffs and unnecessary. This is not the case here, this book is a prequel done correctly. It is not only a great story of Gabriel, but of Guardian as well. A great Chance encounters as well. Thrn the book comes back to the present and picks up where the main story left off.

I like that the story show bother characters humanitarian dides but also dispite the physical differences bot the characters are a strong as each other. This story is as much Anns's as well. As I have seen Gabrial from other books of the series I pretty much pieced his character together but Anna is not mentioned as much so it was great to get to know her, though she is one of the few characters not involved with Guardian she save people in her own way one life at a time.

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A really great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 12, 2020

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I enjoyed this novel because it has everything, and it keeps twisting and turning right to the end. It is the inception of the "Guardian" dynasty really and lays out the ground for some of the characters that follow.
It is also set in the 80s, the good old days when you really could get lost. When your computer wasn't in your pocket, mobile phones were bricks, and payphone were a real method of communication.It
This is a fully packed book. Murder,Romance,Mystery. Sometimes I get bored because all the plot seems to entail is getting the girl, or finding whodunit. But with this there is an after! A beyond! and I just read it in a day. And I'm a book dumper. If it's boring, too much parsing or yet more sex I loose interest. If you have read the Guardian books set in today this is well worth reading, and if you haven't it stands on it own very well.

kinsey

Kris has done it again a real page turner loved it!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 13, 2019

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This is the story of how Gabriel set up Guardian... and what a story.. I loved the simmering interaction between Gabriel and Anna..there is a connection from the start,.. but hunting down a serial killer spanning several years takes most of Gabriel's focus so much so that he doesn't see that his long time friend and senior member of his team has his own agenda where Gabriel is concerned ... Anna is a nurse and loyal to her friends she is feisty and I love that her mouth did not seem to have a filter which caused many laugh out loud moments this was a roller coaster from start to finish the characters grab your attention and the twists and turns keep you turning page after page unable to put it down a must read for all Kris's fans ..

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