Rachel Grant is a USA Today bestselling author who has had a successful career in archaeology before turning to writing. She worked in the field for over a decade, gaining valuable experience and knowledge that she now uses to craft her engaging and intriguing storylines and settings. Her background in archaeology has allowed her to explore a wide range of diverse settings and topics in her work.
Grant's archaeological experiences have taken her to various locations, including excavating a cemetery underneath an historic art museum in San Francisco and conducting survey and excavation of many prehistoric Native American sites in the Pacific Northwest. She has also researched an historic concrete house in Virginia, which served as the inspiration for her debut novel, "Concrete Evidence." Additionally, her work has taken her to the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles, where she mapped a seventeenth century Spanish and Dutch fort, which provided the inspiration for the island and fort described in "Crash Site."
In addition to writing as Rachel Grant, she also writes thrillers under the name R.S. Grant. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, who is also an archaeologist, and their demanding cat. Grant's writing is heavily influenced by her background in archaeology, and she can be found on the web at Rachel-Grant.net.