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Publisher Marketing: Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War. Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for an occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from her great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time. When a mysterious boat explosion - and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts - keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, and aided by one law-enforcement ranger, Anna must find answers or weather a storm to rival the hurricanes for which the islands are famous. Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 184 (EAN 9781402538506, Analog Audio Cassette) Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2002 pg. 76 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) Booklist 11/15/2002 pg. 547 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 12/23/2002 pg. 48 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2002 pg. 1804 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) BookPage 02/01/2003 pg. 8 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) Romantic Times 03/01/2003 pg. 75 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) New York Times 03/09/2003 pg. 21 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2003 pg. 3 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) Library Journal 10/01/2002 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 55 (EAN 9780399149757, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Barr, Nevada Nevada Barr is the award-winning author of thirteen previous Anna Pigeon mysteries, including the New York Times bestsellers Hard Truth and High Country. She lives in New Orleans. Contributor Bio:  Bean, Joyce Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to being an "AudioFile" Earphones Award winner, she has been nominated multiple times for a prestigious Audie Award, including for "Good-bye and Amen" by Beth Gutcheon.