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Evidence Books in Order

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See the Rachel Grant Evidence books in order, with short summaries, series background, recurring characters, and help choosing where to start.

Last updated: July 2, 2026

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13 books

1

Body of Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2013

Archaeologist Mara Garrett goes to North Korea to recover the remains of lost GIs and ends up arrested, convicted of spying, and marked for death. U.S. attorney Curt Dominick races to save her, only to uncover a conspiracy that reaches far beyond the rescue.

2

Concrete Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2013

Blackballed underwater archaeologist Erica Kesling takes a job to get close to the buyer of stolen artifacts and clear her name. Then Lee Scott arrives as a charming intern, except he is really investigating the smuggling ring and thinks Erica is in it.

3

Withholding Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2014

Military historian Trina Sorensen is sent to pry the truth out of former Navy SEAL Keith Hatcher about a classified Somalia mission. The attraction is immediate, but Keith is guarding a secret powerful enough to ruin lives and get them both killed.

4

Covert Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2015

Underwater archaeologist Cressida Porter thinks her Turkish research trip will launch her career, until she becomes an unwitting courier for terrorists. Forced on the run with CIA officer Ian Boyd, she has to decide whether the spy trailing her is her best chance or her biggest risk.

5

Incriminating Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2015

When archaeologist Isabel Dawson finds a wounded man in the Alaskan wild, she is horrified to recognize politician Alec Ravissant, the man she blames for her brother's death. His missing memories and her suspicion lead them into a dangerous search for the truth.

6

Cold Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2016

After an explosion nearly kills Navy underwater archaeologist Undine Gray, she turns to former SEAL Luke Sevick for help returning to a Cold War submarine wreck. Their dive into the Salish Sea stirs up old feelings and a deadly search someone will kill to protect.

7

Poison Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2016

Ivy MacLeod heads to Palau to test her cutting-edge mapping technology, but her tropical job turns into an espionage trap. Stranded with Air Force pilot Jack Keaton, she has to decide whether he is her protector, her betrayer, or both.

8

Silent Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2018

Forensic anthropologist Hazel MacLeod is called to a mass grave just as threats close in around her senator cousin. Forced to pretend her longtime crush Sean Logan is her lover and bodyguard, Hazel has to sort politics, bones, and bullets before someone silences her for good.

9

Winter Hawk

by Rachel Grant

2019

On the first night of Hanukkah, Nate Sifuentes agrees to drive fired AI engineer Leah Ellis home and stumbles into a hunt for her knowledge of military drone operations. Their flight across a frozen Washington, D.C., could be the only thing standing between terrorists and Christmas Day.

10

Night Owl

by Rachel Grant

2020

In small-town Alaska, Jenna O'Donnell wants Brad Fraser almost as much as she wants him to stop planning his escape. One night of owl watching turns their simmering attraction into something messier, sweeter, and much harder to leave behind.

11

Tainted Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2020

Museologist Maddie Foster only wants backup in a creepy crypt, but fake boyfriend Josh Warner turns out to be exactly the kind of protector she needs. As Maddie's research uncovers dangerous family secrets, Portland edges toward violence and neither of them stays safe.

12

Broken Falcon

by Rachel Grant

2021

Raptor operative Chase Johnston is secretly hunting sex traffickers when he meets Eden O'Keeffe, the woman who has been his only refuge from afar. Their real-world connection is electric, and dangerous, because Chase's private war follows him straight to her.

13

False Evidence

by Rachel Grant

2024

After a traffic stop goes horribly wrong, Alexandra Vargas runs to the last place she ever expected to seek shelter, her ex-fiancé JT Talon's mountain cabin. Snowbound longing, old wounds, and a child in danger turn their second chance into a race for the truth.

Series background & context

Rachel Grant's Evidence books are interconnected romantic suspense novels built around a simple but flexible idea: buried facts have a way of surfacing, and when they do, they can wreck careers, governments, and lives. The series starts in the world of archaeology and cultural theft, then gradually widens into military operations, political corruption, cyber investigations, and domestic extremism. Even when the stories get bigger, the books keep one foot in the tactile world of fieldwork, archives, dive sites, museum collections, and forensic evidence.

The early books set the pattern. In Concrete Evidence, underwater archaeologist Erica Kesling is trying to clear her name after being accused of stealing artifacts. Body of Evidence throws archaeologist Mara Garrett into a North Korea rescue plot, and Withholding Evidence pairs a military historian with a former Navy SEAL guarding a deadly secret. From the start, Grant makes it clear that history is never just history in this world. Old objects, old documents, and old decisions keep colliding with present-day violence.

Most entries follow a different couple, which keeps the series fresh. One book might center on an archaeologist and a hacker, another on a forensic anthropologist and a bodyguard, another on a diver returning to a wreck in the Salish Sea. The settings jump from Alaska to Turkey to Palau to Washington, D.C., but the same tension runs through all of them. Someone wants the truth hidden, and someone else is stubborn enough to dig it up.

Nothing stays buried for long.

As the series goes on, the cast becomes more connected. Readers keep crossing paths with operatives, senators, divers, intelligence officers, and people in the security world around Raptor. Later books like Silent Evidence, Winter Hawk, Tainted Evidence, Broken Falcon, and False Evidence lean even harder into the way private pain and public danger can overlap. Fake relationships, second chances, old grudges, and family fallout all sit right beside larger threats like trafficking, terrorism, and political manipulation.

That mix is the appeal. The romance matters, but so does the case. Grant likes highly competent women, men who can keep up with them, and plots that move fast without losing the nuts-and-bolts detail of the work. Archaeology, museum studies, forensic anthropology, diving, and intelligence gathering are not decoration here. They shape the danger.

If you want a series that blends sexy romance with smart suspense, this is Evidence in a nutshell. Each book tells its own love story, but the wider world keeps building in the background. You can read individual titles on their own, yet there is a real payoff in watching the network of characters, secrets, and hard-won trust grow from book to book.

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Richard Reis

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Anurag Ramdasan

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