Rachel Grant Books in Order
Browse Rachel Grant books in order, from Evidence to Flashpoint and Fiona Carver, with short summaries, series guides, and where-to-start advice.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
26 books
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.
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.
Grave Danger
by Rachel Grant
2013
Archaeologist Libby Maitland takes a dream excavation in a historic Washington sawmill town, only to feel watched almost from the moment she arrives. Police chief Mark Colby is not sure whether Libby is endangered, unstable, or hiding something, until the danger turns real.
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.
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.
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.
Midnight Sun
by Rachel Grant
2015
Museum collections specialist Sienna Aubrey steals a haunted Iñupiat mask and carries it to an Alaskan village, hoping to be rid of it. Instead she collides with Assistant U.S. Attorney Rhys Vaughan, who thinks she may be tied to attempted murder while the artifact demands justice.
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.
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.
Catalyst
by Rachel Grant
2017
After a food depot burns in South Sudan, aid worker Brie Stewart is swept into violence that may be tied to oil rights and her own family. Green Beret Sebastian Ford rescues her, but distrust, old history, and a widening conflict keep them both off balance.
Tinderbox
by Rachel Grant
2017
In Djibouti, paleoanthropologist Morgan Adler makes a fossil discovery that puts her in a warlord's sights. Green Beret Pax Blanchard is assigned to protect her, but between the desert heat, military danger, and a mystery tied to scarce water, survival gets complicated fast.
Firestorm
by Rachel Grant
2018
CIA covert operator Savannah James needs Sergeant First Class Cassius Callahan to help her infiltrate the forces behind a possible coup in Congo. Posing as lovers, they follow money, minerals, and betrayal deep into the jungle, where the mission may cost them everything.
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.
Inferno
by Rachel Grant
2019
What starts as a black-tie date in Djibouti becomes a deadly escape when foreign agents target embassy officer Kaylea Halpert and Special Forces sergeant Carlos Espinosa. Their chemistry is instant, but the bigger shock is the treachery they uncover together.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dangerous Ground
by Rachel Grant
2021
Archaeologist Fiona Carver returns to the Aleutians to finish a ruined expedition and search for missing artifacts and a missing volcanologist. Wildlife photographer Dean Slater crashes the mission with his own agenda, and together they are hunted across a brutal island landscape.
Before the Storm: One Hot Night
by Rachel Grant
2022
On a scouting trip to Lake Olympus Lodge, Navy SEAL Xavier Rivera gives in to a powerful attraction to archaeologist Audrey Kendrick. Their one night together is all heat at first, until secrets and betrayal make the aftermath impossible to ignore.
Crash Site
by Rachel Grant
2022
Fiona Carver's dream job on a private Caribbean island should mean caves, rain forest, and a seventeenth-century fort, not sabotage and terror. When Dean Slater rejoins her, their reunion is tested by billionaires, buried secrets, and a project someone wants destroyed.
Into the Storm
by Rachel Grant
2022
A Navy SEAL training exercise at remote Lake Olympus Lodge turns real when a storm cuts the team off from the world. Xavier Rivera and archaeologist Audrey Kendrick must push past betrayal and old desire to keep everyone alive.
The Buried Hours
by Rachel Grant
2023
Investigative crime reporter Signe Gates has spent two years haunted by the forty-eight hours she cannot fully remember after her kidnapping. A lead pulls her into Yosemite's backcountry with a guide she may not be able to trust, and closer to the truth she fears.
Trust Me
by Rachel Grant
2023
Archaeologist Diana Edwards is kidnapped while investigating the link between artifact trafficking and terrorism, and the SEAL sent to rescue her may be too early. Back on American soil, Chris Flyte is not sure whether Diana is telling the truth, or whether the danger followed her home.
Don't Look Back
by Rachel Grant
2024
Art historian Kira Hanson hopes a trip to Malta will answer questions about her father's secret work recovering stolen World War II art. Instead, she draws danger to her door, and Navy SEAL Rand Fallon has to go undercover beside her to stop it.
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.
Where should I start?
If you want her signature archaeology suspense: Concrete Evidence → Body of Evidence → Withholding Evidence
If you want globe-spanning military action: Tinderbox → Catalyst → Firestorm
If you want survival-heavy suspense with SEALs: Into the Storm → Trust Me → Don't Look Back
If you want one continuing heroine: Dangerous Ground → Crash Site
If you want a darker standalone thriller: The Buried Hours
Author bio
Rachel Grant worked as a professional archaeologist for more than a decade before turning to fiction full time. That earlier career still shapes almost everything she writes. Her books are packed with people who know how to excavate a site, read a landscape, follow a chain of evidence, or spot trouble before it blows up, and the details feel lived-in because, in many cases, they are.
Her fieldwork took her to some unusual places. She worked on prehistoric Native American sites in the Pacific Northwest, excavated beneath a historic art museum in San Francisco, surveyed a struggling coal-mining town in Kentucky, researched a historic concrete house in Virginia, and mapped a seventeenth-century Spanish and Dutch fort on Sint Maarten. Those jobs gave her more than background color. They gave her a sharp feel for how history, politics, land, and money can collide.
Writing was there early.
In one interview, Grant said she wrote her first romance mystery in sixth grade. For a long stretch, though, archaeology won out over fiction. The turn back to writing came later, when her daughter was almost two and her family was preparing to move to Hawaii for her husband's job with the Army Corps of Engineers. Grant had been working from home for a small archaeological consulting firm, and she realized the move gave her a chance to stop consulting and try fiction seriously.
That switch changed the career, not the subject matter.
Grave Danger was the first novel she wrote, while Concrete Evidence became her first published book. Both point to what readers now think of as classic Rachel Grant territory: capable women, real professional stakes, and suspense plots built around what people hide, steal, or bury. In Concrete Evidence, an underwater archaeologist tries to clear her name after being accused of artifact theft. In Tinderbox, a paleoanthropologist's discovery in Djibouti pulls her into warlord politics and a dangerous alliance with a Green Beret. In Dangerous Ground and Crash Site, remote fieldwork becomes the start of survival stories.
She doesn't use archaeology as wallpaper.
Again and again, Grant builds thrillers around evidence in the broadest sense of the word. Her characters are archaeologists, divers, museum specialists, historians, reporters, intelligence officers, diplomats, and SEALs. The stories often turn on looted antiquities, stolen art, hidden records, buried remains, or missing memories. Even when the plots get international, or when the romance runs hot, there is usually a practical question at the center: what really happened here, and who benefits if the truth stays buried?
Setting matters in her books too. She uses the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, the Caribbean, East Africa, Turkey, Palau, Malta, and Yosemite as active parts of the story. These are not postcard backdrops. Weather, water, wilderness, and political borders all have a say in what happens next.
Grant also writes darker thrillers as R.S. Grant. The Buried Hours, for example, follows a crime reporter trying to recover the truth about her own missing past, and it shows how comfortably Grant can shift from romantic suspense toward straight thriller territory without losing her feel for tension or character.
Some of the personal details in her life sound like something one of her heroines would notice and file away for later. She met her husband, David, while they were excavating a four-thousand-year-old site in Seattle that was about to be destroyed by the expansion of a sewage treatment plant. She has joked that, despite that memorable meet-cute, she still has no intention of setting a romance at a sewage plant.
Now Grant lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children. She has said she has spent more than three decades in that part of the world, and it shows. Even when her stories travel far from home, they carry the same mix of ground-level expertise, restless curiosity, and respect for the way the past keeps pressing on the present.
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