The Nature of Grace

Grace has lived in the Smokies all her life, patrolling with her forest ranger father who taught her everything he knew about wildlife, tracking, and wilderness survival. When her dad goes missing on a routine patrol, unlike everyone in her sleepy mountain town, she refuses to believe he’s dead.

One day, while out tracking clues, Grace is rescued from imminent danger by Mo, a hot guy with an intoxicating accent and a secret. After a few run-ins with the town’s police chief, her father’s partner, and some new evidence, Grace travels deeper into the wilderness only to learn that her father’s disappearance is not a mere coincidence.

Soon she’s enmeshed in a web of conspiracy, deception, and murder. And it’s going to take a lot more than a compass and a motorcycle (named Lucifer) for this kick-butt heroine to emerge from an epidemic that’s spreading like wildfire, threatening everything and everyone she’s ever loved.

As Grace recovers from tragedy, her science class is chosen by Agent Sweeney at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to help with research on the new “Red Wolf Reintroduction Program.”

While she’s excited about helping with the conservation of the endangered wolves, Grace knows this means being outdoors in the worst winter on record, in a place she no longer feels comfortable. It also means working closely with Wyn (her ex) and his annoying girlfriend (Skyler), whose only experience with nature is killing two silk plants and watering a cactus.

After wolves show up dead, Grace almost quits. However, when a fellow project team member goes missing, Grace continues the assignment under a renewed suspicion that someone might be sabotaging the conservation program. She quietly begins to hunt for clues.

Little does she know, she is being hunted too.

After everything that has happened, Grace moves to the Everglades to live with her grandmother, Birdee, and hang out with old man Rex, Birdee’s “friend with benefits.” Grace quickly befriends Dylan, Rex’s nephew, and Dylan’s girlfriend, Sadie, a die-hard teen activist who leads protests against the roadside zoos that run rampant in Florida.

One day while out in the marshes of the Everglades, Grace and her friends rescue an abused—and endangered—Florida panther. But when the panther runs off, Grace follows it to Uncle Bob’s, a large roadside zoo illegally filled with endangered and exotic animals. Before she can rescue the panther, she and her friends are kidnapped by the ruthless owner and dragged deep into the Everglades for a hunting challenge. Only this time, Grace is the prey.

With a small head start and very few supplies, only time and skill stand between the hunter and the hunted. Against all odds, Grace must make it out alive and win, or everything she holds dear could be lost.

All three Nature of Grace novels—Untraceable, Uncontrollable, and Unstoppable—plus:

Unspeakable, an exclusive short story from Mo’s perspective: when Mo sees a strange girl in the woods, he follows her, and soon realizes they are both in a dangerous position and may not get out alive. It includes Untraceable’s original ending—never released before!

Tons of extras, including author interviews, character interviews, insider scoop on the series, and additional animal and nature conservation information on the issues covered in the series.