When people said the Heartless Ranch was haunted, they were right. When Emmy decides to leave Dallas for a haunted ranch in Nebraska, her decision will impact the lives of everyone around her. Her best friend Phoebe, an artist having very strange dreams, who has never turned down a challenge, will soon be living in a haunted house too. Her mom Barb, a successful art dealer that emits nuclear radiation, will feel the past pushing in on her. Her sister Ashley, a young tech genius that specializes in recovering data from phones that have been destroyed, will be left alone in more danger than any of her loved ones realize. The ghost of a cowboy from the end of an era, a complex family secret, growing friendships and the old ways enveloping the new west in the cowtown of Dismal where all their souls are grappling with freedom, duty and sacrifice. The Heartless Ranch Is Haunted is the first novel in the This Is Dismal series.