Tinderbox

Rachel Grant

Feb 2017 · Flashpoint Book 1 · Janus Publishing

About this eBook

"Unexpected and intense from the get-go. With irresistible characters, a rare setting and an inventive, high-powered plot, it's a smartly crafted gem of a story." - USA Today

While working on the Horn of Africa, archaeologist Morgan Adler's work and life are threatened, forcing her to make a desperate dash to a nearby US military base to beg for protection. Green Beret Pax Blanchard has orders to intercept Dr. Adler before she reaches the base, and in so doing saves her life, but his responsibilities toward protecting the woman have only just begun.

Morgan and Pax are forced to work together in the scorching desert heat, but it is the fire that ignites between them that threatens to consume them both. He protects her by day, but can he keep his hands off her when the sun goes down? One thing is certain, his job is no longer a matter of following orders, and he will risk everything to keep her safe.

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2017

2018 HOLT Medallion Winner

Topics: military thriller, political thriller, political romance, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, thriller, mystery, hot romance, women's romance, action and adventure, Special Forces, Green Beret, military romance, special ops romance, archaeology, paleoanthropology, alpha hero, strong heroine, scientist heroine, desert, international, Africa, Djibouti, Rachel Grant, Flashpoint Series.

Ratings and reviews

not my favorite by this author. I hated the heroine. I could not wrap my head around the fact that she's a doctor. she came across as manipulative and used her body to advance her agenda. that's not a bad but I find it hard to believe that a highly educated woman will resort to such tactics. I would have love the hero but he came across as pathetic because he allowed himself to be manipulated. anyway I've read better books from Rachel so I will in the future pick up her book again.

Rachel Grant has written another fabulous book. Ms. Grant has a talent for writing stories full of intrigue, mystery, and sexual attraction, while creating unique story lines that are enhanced from a personal knowledge of the subject matter; which clearly shows in her writing. Set in the Horn of Africa, Tinderbox is the first book in the new series Flashpoint, and tells the story of Master Sergeant Pax Blanchard and Dr. Morgan Adler; two intelligent, career driven people with an undeniable sexual attraction to one another. Despite the attraction, each has their own reasons to avoid any entanglements, yet some things are just too hard to resist. Add in an archaeological find of a lifetime, a few bad guys, and General Adler and you have a book that is too hard to resist. I highly recommend this book, along with the books from the Evidence series. Even though I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review, Ms. Grant is an automatic buy for me and I look forward to reading her next book.

Tinderbox, the first book in the Flashpoint series by Rachel Grant, blew me away from the first page and I could not put it down until I finished the book. I was just that good. The book opens with Dr. Morgan Adler, an archaeologist working in Djibouti, escaping from her research site after being threatened by machine gun toting warlord henchmen, to a US Military base due to a warning that the US embassy was going in to lock down. Morgan had uncovered remains that were the paleoanthropological find of a lifetime and she had to protect them from the Ethiopian warlord looking to expand his territory into Djibouti as well as “acquiring” Morgan for himself. Morgan reaches a road block before reaching the US Military base she was closest to, when she is stopped and questioned as to why she needs to get onto the base. Now here is where it gets interesting. Morgan is expecting the warlord’s henchmen to show up any minute to take her find from her, she just wants to get on the base to protect her find and to be safe, but the US Army is questioning if she is really who she says she is or is she just trying to get on to the base to deliver a message from the warlord, as the tip they received stated, and is a danger to the Military members who are stationed there. The soldier who stops Morgan, Master Sergeant Pax Blanchard, has orders to intercept Dr. Adler and in the process, saves her life. That is when the story really gets started. Morgan and Pax want the same things, to protect the site and to finish the work Morgan started, but they both have personal history that clouds the issue of how they should act towards each other. The attraction is there and makes all of their interaction exciting, but the friction between them has you guessing as to how this will all play out and will they both be successful in getting the job they were hired to do done. If you like military stories, suspense and romance then this is a must read for you. I have read most of Rachel Grants books and I think this is my favorite. Thank you Rachel for writing such intriguing books. I can’t wait for the next book in the series.

About the author

USA Today bestselling author Rachel Grant worked for over a decade as a professional archaeologist and mines her experiences for storylines and settings, which are as diverse as excavating a cemetery underneath an historic art museum in San Francisco, survey and excavation of many prehistoric Native American sites in the Pacific Northwest, researching an historic concrete house in Virginia, and mapping a seventeenth century Spanish and Dutch fort on the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children and can be found on the web at Rachel-Grant.net.