Okinawa photos and book deals


I love everything about Okinawa. It's so exciting to be here and I'm so honored to get to be a long-term guest on this island and in this country. My language skills are embarrassingly bad, but once we get settled into our permanent home I'm going to devote some time every day to learning more than Arigatou Gozaimasu.

Here is a photo I took on Tuesday during my afternoon walk along the Sunabe Seawall at low tide:

This is the same area at high tide:

Here are surfers enjoying the waves at high tide in the same area:

A short video of a surfer in action.


Australia readers, this deal is for you!

It was supposed to be paradise….
Ivy MacLeod has the perfect opportunity to test her advanced remote sensing technology: mapping a World War II battle site in the islands of Palau. The project is more than an all-expenses-paid trip to paradise. It’s also an opportunity to distance her reputation from her traitorous ex-husband. But foreign intelligence agencies will kill to possess her invention, and paradise turns deadly when her ex-husband’s vicious allies attack.

In desperation, she turns to Air Force pilot Jack Keaton. But is he the bigger threat? Jack might be protecting her as he claims...or he could be a foreign agent. Her compass is skewed by his magnetic pull and further thrown off when she learns her own government has betrayed her.

Stranded on a tropical island with a man whose motives remain a mystery, Ivy must decide who is the spy, who is the protector, and who is the ultimate villain. She longs to trust the man who rescued her, but she’s risking more than her heart. Choose right, and she saves her country’s secrets—and her life. Choose wrong—and she risks nothing short of all-out war.

**POISON EVIDENCE is only discounted on Amazon AU at this time**

Grab POISON EVIDENCE for only $1.49 AUD and then meet me Down Under in October!

Meet me in Melbourne! If you already have tickets to the event, look for a pre-order form from me in the Facebook group as soon as I get settled here in Okinawa--probably mid-May.


It's time for another Kobo BOGO!

April Thriller Buy One Get One sale at Kobo

☆ CA, UK, US, AU, NZ ☆


What happens when a SEAL attempts to rescue a kidnapped archaeologist too soon? Find out in

TRUST ME

"The author elevates an intense thriller romance full of unexpected twists and turns with spectacular character development. Diana’s passion for archeology is believable, and her decision to throw that away in the hope of bringing down a horrific terrorist is equally convincing. Chris’ conflict between his sense of duty and his love for Diana also feels real and palpable. Their chemistry is fantastic, and their relationship grounds an exhilarating plot.
Exciting, heartfelt, and full of surprises."
-Kirkus Reviews
“A gritty, sophisticated thriller that combines action and romance.”
- NYT bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz

Taken hostage by terrorists, an archaeologist must risk everything when a SEAL attempts to rescue her too soon…

Archaeologist Diana Edwards is on a mission to uncover the link between artifact trafficking and terrorism. Just when she’s making progress, she’s kidnapped and forced to work for the very people she’s trying to stop. The nightmare deepens when she discovers the man who arranged her abduction is a terrorist everyone believes to be dead. A team of SEALs is sent in to save her, forcing her to make an impossible choice if she wants to stop looted artifacts from being used to fund brutal attacks across the globe.

Navy SEAL Chris Flyte has one job to do, but the hostage won’t cooperate, endangering him and everyone on his team. After he completes the mission and Diana is safely on American soil, her story of abduction and being forced to dig becomes suspect. But when she shows up on his doorstep saying she’s seen one of her abductors, Chris has to wonder if the archaeologist is lying, or if a terrorist has followed her home.


Enjoy this freebie from my pal Kimberly Kincaid!

✅ Opposites attract

✅ Reformed bad-boy protector hero

✅ Slight age gap

✅ Series starter + standalone

✅ Action adventure and steamy romance

✅ Like Chicago PD and Law & Order, only with more kissing!

Police recruit Xander Matthews will do anything to keep his dark and dangerous past in his rear-view.

A past that includes brash, beautiful A.D.A. Tara Kingston--

the woman who tried to put him away two years ago.

Yet here she is, smack in the middle of a crime scene

and now they have to work together

to catch a killer.

Grab your FREE copy here https://bit.ly/TheRookieKincaid


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My next newsletter will have links to preorder the FALSE EVIDENCE audiobook and the German translation of COLD EVIDENCE.

Happy reading!

Author Rachel Grant

USA Today bestselling romantic thriller author and former archaeologist.

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