Anna Pigeon #13
Putnam
April 2005
On Sale: March 24, 2005
Featuring: Anna Pigeon
336 pages ISBN: 0399152415 EAN: 9780399152412 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Just three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul
Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado
to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky
Mountain National Park, where three young girls have
disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the
children emerge a month later, clad only in filthy
underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the
intervening weeks.
The girls are traumatized but forge a
bond with the pair of campers who discovered them - a
wheelchair-bound paraplegic and her elderly aunt. With
the reappearance of the children comes an odd and
unsettling presence in the park, a sense of disembodied
evil and unspeakable terror: small animals are mercilessly
slaughtered and a sinister force seems to still control
the girls.
As Anna investigates, she finds herself caught
up in the machinations of a paranoid religious sect
determined to keep their secrets and the girls sequestered
from law enforcement and psychiatric help.
Following the
trails of the many suspects, especially that of the cult's
intense youth group leader, Anna discovers the force which
has destroyed the children's minds. Here in the park, evil
has the eyes of a visionary and the soul of the devil.
Anna will discover the truth-even if it kills her.