The Heartless Ranch Is Haunted

"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. These days he spends every night guarding a forgotten cellar door and watching tv with his boots on.

When Emmy decides to leave Dallas and live in the house her mom grew up in, she just wants to stop crying so much. She doesn't know that her decision will impact the lives of everyone around her. Her best friend, an artist who has never turned down a challenge, will soon be living in a haunted house too. Her mom, a mysterious woman that brings down power grids, will feel her world start to come apart as the past pushes in on her. And her sister, 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 that loves cars, a complex Cold War era secret, growing friendships and connection between generations in the modern American West. This is a genre-blending series opener from Nebraska novelist Bunny Hammond. The Heartless Ranch Is Haunted is the first novel in the This Is Dismal series.

Nothing is ever really gone.