01128cam a2200193 4500 116231304 TxAuBib 20050323120000.0 041022s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780399152412 $36.00 0399152415 $36.00 Whitehots TxAuBib Barr, Nevada. Hard truth [320 p]. Putnam, 2004. 320 p. First printing 125,000. Anna Pigeon moves 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, and claim to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. With their reappearance comes an odd and unsettling presence in the park, a sense of disembodied evil and unspeakable terror. As Anna investigates, she finds herself caught up in the machinations of a paranoid religious sect determined to keep their secrets. Previous title in the series: HIGH COUNTRY. Whitehots winter/spring 2005 catalogue.