"Clyde was buried in the Dismal cemetery and his car abandoned and forgotten. So every night, just before dawn, Don visited the car."

When people said the Heartless Ranch was haunted, they were right. Don was haunting the Heartless Ranch when they were still putting the cattle on trains. Now the year is 2025 and Emmy will leave Dallas for a ranch in Nebraska to live in the house her mom grew up in. She doesn't know that her decision will impact the lives of everyone around her. Her best friend Phoebe, an artist 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 Heartless Ranch Is Haunted is the first novel in the This Is Dismal series.

Nothing is ever really gone.