The Rope: An Anna Pigeon Novel

Summary: <DIV>Anna Pigeon's first casethis is the story her fans have been clamoring for...this is where it all starts.</DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barrs bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Annas past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think shes simply moved onher cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she found herself in this situation.</DIV><DIV><BR>As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that someone has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and no one knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage, determination and will to live that she didnt even know she still possessed to survive, outwit and triumph.</DIV><DIV><BR>For those legions of readers who have been entranced over the years by Park Ranger Anna Pigeons strength and determination and those who are new to Nevada Barrs captivating, compelling novels, this is where it all starts.</DIV>