Dangerous Ground

Written by Rachel Grant

Narrated by Eva Kaminsky, A.T. Chandler and Michele Yatchmeneff

In the remote and unpredictable Aleutians, danger comes without warning in an adrenaline rush of a novel by USA Today bestselling author Rachel Grant.

Archaeologist Fiona Carver has unfinished business in the Aleutian Islands. After an emergency evacuation cut her first expedition short, she’s finally back. But time is not on her side as she races to finish documenting the remnants of a prehistoric village, recover missing artifacts, and track down missing volcanologist Dylan Slater.

Having bluffed his way onto Fiona’s team with fake credentials, wildlife photographer Dean Slater is willing to risk more than federal prison to find his missing brother, but he needs Fiona’s help. She knows the inhospitable terrain better than anyone.

When the two set out together on a perilous journey, it becomes more than a recovery mission. In their fight for survival, nature isn’t the only threat. They aren’t the only ones on the hunt. Mile by dangerous mile, someone is hunting them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Aug 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781713594444

Rachel Grant

Rachel Grant is the USA Today bestselling author of the Flashpoint series and the Evidence novels. She worked for over a decade as a professional archaeologist and mines her experiences for story lines and settings, which are as diverse as excavating a cemetery underneath an historic art museum in San Francisco, surveying an economically depressed coal-mining town in Kentucky, and mapping a seventeenth-century Spanish and Dutch fort on the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. In all her travels and adventures as an archaeologist, Rachel has found many sites and artifacts, but she’s only found one true treasure: her husband, David. Rachel Grant lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children. For more information visit www.rachel-grant.net.

Reviews for Dangerous Ground

[martinhughharvey_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A welcome submarine thriller author of the top drawer.Started slowly and for a while it seemed like a rookie submariner 101 course and it took a while to get past that stage. The action in the latter stages of the book is more of a simmer than explosion but superb and seemingly ultra realistic.This really is a thinking person's submarine tale.

[bhabeck-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Dangerous Ground is the first book in the Jerry Mitchell series. Jerry Mitchell is a naval aviator whose plans come to an abrupt halt with a blown tire and a crash of his Navy Hornet. Jerry decides that if he can’t ben an aviator, he wants to be a submariner and petitions the Navy to allow him to not only remain in the Navy but also to qualify for his dolphins. After having spent millions of dollars training Jerry to be a Navy pilot, the brass is reluctant to grant the request which would take yet more training and time so Jerry uses his family connection to a US Senator to get what he wants thereby ensuring that the Navy was going to make his qualification process exceeding hard and almost impossible.Jerry is assigned to Memphis, a US submarine that – instead of being decommissioned as has been the plan over the past year – is sent out on a final mission to ensure the President’s political legacy as a strong environmentalist. That final mission takes the boat and the crew to the coast of Russia and into very dangerous territorial waters.For those of you following my reviews, you know that I like character-driven stories – characters that you love, characters that you cheer for and characters that you despise (in a good way, of course) and this story had that. You have Jerry, who you root for when many on the sub are against him for using his political pull and getting a second chance that others may not have gotten; you have Captain Hardy, hard, demanding and irascible; there’s Lenny Berg, the drama major turned submariner and the list goes on. The story was interesting, the people engaging and the crisis points tension filled. All of these, as well as my general liking for military stories, worked to get me through the very technical details of life on a submarine and the qualification process. And the acronyms…the military does love its acronyms…Overall rating: 3.75

[ecw0647 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Let's see. Hero is transferred from aviation branch thanks to influence by relative. Suffers abuse on board sub because of it. Mean but in the end kind captain. Hero overcomes hardships. Makes friends with girl on board (scientist checking out new prototype.) Helps evade attacking Russians. Lots of nifty technical detail. Mix all these standard plot elements together and you have a decent if many-times-done-before-story.