Hard Truth (Anna Pigeon)

From the Publisher - Just three weeks after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon foregoes her honeymoon to begin her job as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three young girls recently disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children emerge a month later, claiming to remember nothing of their ordeal. But with the children's reappearance comes an unsettling presence in the park. Anna is acutely aware of an encroaching menace: small animals are slaughtered and a sinister force seems to still control the girls. Impeding the investigation is the paranoid religious sect to which their families belong, and the cult's youth group leader is at the top of Anna's suspect list. But when she finally comes face to face with the unspeakable evil that has controlled the children's minds, it's far more deadly than anything she's ever encountered. Explicit violence.