The last safe place was never safe. It was just the last one left.

Graham has led his people through pandemic, war, and collapse. Now, with a newborn among them, a baby on the way, and the enemy closing in, they've arrived at the one place no one wanted to go ? Hanford. America's most contaminated nuclear site. A poisoned graveyard of reactors and buried waste stretching across the Washington basin.

But Hanford isn't empty.

Someone has been here for fifteen years. Living underground. Maintaining the systems. Guarding the perimeter. And watching Graham's convoy since the moment they crossed the fence line.

The Watchers don't want visitors. They don't want allies. What they want is containment ? of the radiation, of the threat from outside, and of everything that comes with letting people back into their lives after a decade and a half of surviving alone.

The Burning Ground is the eleventh book in A. R. Shaw's bestselling Graham's Resolution series ? a story about what it costs to protect the people you love when the world has already taken everything else. Radiation detectors glow green or amber. A young woman discovers something impossible is growing inside her. An old soldier learns the difference between a shelter and a wall.

And somewhere beyond the eastern ridge, the Burners are organizing.

The war for Hanford is just beginning.

For fans of William Forstchen, A. American, Kyla Stone, and Tom Abrahams.